Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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5074516 | Geoforum | 2011 | 12 Pages |
Abstract
⺠Newly-created territorial institutions cannot ignore the pre-existing customary powers that already control the access to space and resource. ⺠The means of resistance of state and customary authorities to decentralization, which-as a territorialization process-is equated with a loss of control over people and resources. ⺠Territorial claims are linked with contrasted registers of legitimate land uses and arguments of autochthony. ⺠Micro-level spatial practices have an instrumental role in the establishment of territorial claims. ⺠The transfer of authority in forest resource management to woodcutters' organizations has been used in Mali as a tool by customary authorities to establish their authority over their populations and territories.
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Authors
Denis Gautier, Baptiste Hautdidier, Laurent Gazull,