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Title:Contextualizing privatization and conservation in the history of resource management in southwestern Uganda: ethnicity, political privilege, and resource access over time
Authors:Pearson, Amber L.
Muchunguzi, Charles
Year:2011
Periodical:International Journal of African Historical Studies (ISSN 0361-7882)
Volume:44
Issue:1
Pages:113-140
Language:English
Geographic term:Uganda
Subjects:natural resource management
land reform
national parks and reserves
privatization
economic inequality
Nyankole
Hima
Abstract:Economic development pressure from multilateral lending agencies and donors has led to increased privatization of land and other public resources and the creation of national parks. This paper examines the case of Lake Mburo National Park (LMNP) in Uganda, where the decisionmaking power over resources and livelihoods of Bahima pastoralist and Bairu cultivator inhabitants - together forming the Banyankole - was removed from their communities to the State. The surrounding land was subsequently allocated as private parcels. Accounts of these land use policies often separate the effects of privatization from those of conservation, and are devoid of the potentially lived experiences of the policies, which were implemented via existing systems of social stratification such as ethnicity, wealth, and political power. The purposes of the present paper are to contextualize the policies of land privatization and creation of LMNP in a broader history of resource management (pre-1900 to date); cartographically represent the changes in land use over time; understand the linked roles of ethnicity and political privilege as patronage systems for policy implementation; and examine the lived experiences of the implementation of these policies and their contemporary consequences. Ref. [ASC Leiden abstract]
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