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ASR FORUM: ENGAGING WITH AFRICAN INFORMAL ECONOMIES

Institutions, Security, and Pastoralism: Exploring the Limits of Hybridity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2013

Frances Cleaver ,
Tom Franks ,
Faustin Maganga  and
Kurt Hall
Frances Cleaver
Affiliation:
Frances Cleaver is a professor of environment and development in the Department of Geography, Kings College, London. Her research focuses on the formation and functioning of local institutions for natural resource management, mainly in Zimbabwe and Tanzania. She is the author of Development through Bricolage: Rethinking Institutions for Natural Resource Management (Earthscan/Routledge, 2012). [email protected]
Tom Franks
Affiliation:
Tom Franks is a professor of water resources and development at the Centre for International Development, University of Bradford. He has expertise in water and natural resources planning and management, with a particular focus on water governance and land and water management. His articles on water governance in Africa have been published in the International Journal of River Basin Management, Engineering Sustainability, Irrigation and Drainage, Water Alternatives, and Progress in Development Studies. E-mail: [email protected]
Faustin Maganga
Affiliation:
Faustin Maganga is an associate professor and the associate director of the Institute of Resource Assessment, University of Dar es Salaam. His research focuses on the political ecology of water, forests, wildlife, and land in Tanzania and Africa, including the role of customary law in water management, claims to identity, indigeneity and land rights, and farmer‒pastoralist conflicts. His articles have been published in Development and Change, the African Journal of Ecology, Africa, and the European Journal of Development Research. E-mail: [email protected]
Kurt Hall
Affiliation:
Kurt Hall is an independent researcher who specializes in understanding the ways in which poverty and violence are constructed and experienced. His in-depth research has been conducted primarily in Jamaica. E-mail: [email protected]
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Abstract:

This article furthers our understanding of how state and citizens interact to produce local institutions and examines the effects of these processes. It brings critical institutional theory into engagement with ideas about everyday governance to analyze how hybrid arrangements are formed through bricolage. Such a perspective helps us to understand governance arrangements as both negotiated and structured, benefiting some and disadvantaging others. To explore these points the article tracks the evolution of the Sungusungu, a hybrid pastoralist security institution in the Usangu Plains, Tanzania. It also considers the wider implications of such hybrid arrangements for livelihoods, social inclusion, distributive justice, and citizenship.

Résumé:

Cet article approfondit notre perception de la manière dont l’état et les citoyens interagissent lors de la création d’institutions locales et il examine également les conséquences de ces interactions. Nous instituons un dialogue entre la critique théorique institutionnelle et les idées sur la gouvernance au quotidien pour analyser de quelle manière les arrangements hybrides se forment. Une telle perspective de “bricolage institutionnel” se base sur des arrangements de gouvernance juxtaposant négociation et structure, au profit des uns et au désavantage des autres.

Afin d’explorer ces idées, cet article retrace l’évolution de Sungusungu, une institution de gouvernance hybride pastorale dans les plaines de l’Usangu, en Tanzanie. Nous considérons également les implications au sens large de tels arrangements sur les phénomènes de subsistance, d’inclusion sociale, de justice distributive, et de citoyenneté.

Keywords

Tanzaniabricolagehybriditypastoralist securitygovernanceUsangu Plains
Type
ASR FORUM: ENGAGING WITH AFRICAN INFORMAL ECONOMIES: SOCIAL INCLUSION OR ADVERSE INCORPORATION?
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African Studies Review , Volume 56 , Issue 3 , December 2013 , pp. 165 - 189
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Copyright © African Studies Association 2013 

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