In Niger the question of rights to pastoral resourcesillustrates how struggles in Western mindset havebeen transported to the developing world. On the onehand there has been an attempt to standardise legalframeworks and land tenure practices with uniformrules. On the other hand,since the 1990s customary practices are increasinglyrecognised in legal frameworks. "Struggling for waterand pastures in Niger" investigates the philosophicalassumptions behind the rules governing rights towater and pastures. It shows how these assumptionsinform natural resource struggles on the ground. Thebook reveals that points of contest betweenuniversalism and cultural relativism in regards toproperty, public authority and justice are reflectedin both national legislation and internationaldevelopment practices. On the basis of a sensitivestudy of struggles over water and pastures in thepastoral areas the author accounts for the outcome ofconflict and cooperation and explains why herders,like people in other cultures, conceive of theirrights in a contradictory manner: as requiringadoption to cultural specific conditions and yetapplies universally to all.
In Niger the question of rights to pastoral resourcesillustrates how struggles in Western mindset havebeen transported to the developing world. On the onehand there has been an attempt to standardise legalframeworks and land tenure practices with uniformrules. On the other hand,since the 1990s customary practices are increasinglyrecognised in legal frameworks. "Struggling for waterand pastures in Niger" investigates the philosophicalassumptions behind the rules governing rights towater and pastures. It shows how these assumptionsinform natural resource struggles on the ground. Thebook reveals that points of contest betweenuniversalism and cultural relativism in regards toproperty, public authority and justice are reflectedin both national legislation and internationaldevelopment practices. On the basis of a sensitivestudy of struggles over water and pastures in thepastoral areas the author accounts for the outcome ofconflict and cooperation and explains why herders,like people in other cultures, conceive of theirrights in a contradictory manner: as requiringadoption to cultural specific conditions and yetapplies universally to all.
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This ecological history of peasant society in the Peruvian Andes focuses on the politics of irrigation and water management in three villages whose terraces and canal systems date back to Inca times...
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and...
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