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Relational governance of territorial resources in post-colonial Africa : A new analytic framework

DOI zum Zitieren der Version auf EPub Bayreuth: https://doi.org/10.15495/EPub_UBT_00006580
URN zum Zitieren der Version auf EPub Bayreuth: urn:nbn:de:bvb:703-epub-6580-3

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Rothfuß, Eberhard ; Boamah, Festus ; Dörfler, Thomas:
Relational governance of territorial resources in post-colonial Africa : A new analytic framework.
In: Die Erde. Bd. 152 (2021) Heft 2 . - S. 75-90.
ISSN 0013-9998
DOI der Verlagsversion: https://doi.org/10.12854/erde-2021-527

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Abstract

Current political sociology scholarship suggests that limited state autonomy from societal organisations undermines state enforcement capacity throughout the national territory, and therefore does superficial separation of the state from civil society (or formal from informal institutions) in the conceptualisation of what effective state system ought to be. These conceptions contradict realities in post-colonial Africa where societal organisations have evolved to bear ‘state-like’ qualities in resource governance, especially in remote locations where the state has no promising alter- native to accommodating inputs from revered institutions or charismatic actors to complement its functions. Colo- nial experiences in Africa have produced institutional pluralism and a consequential split loyalty to the state in the post-independence era. Apparently, limited state autonomy sometimes refract or obstruct state visions; the resultant co-governance regime does not imply ‘wishy-washy’ state leadership. This is because state formation processes have produced an intermeshed governance of people, places, and resources through a complicated interplay between entities which have become indistinct in terms of functions, and hence cannot be simplistically categorised as either formal or informal, state or non-state. In this sense, the activity of regulating affairs in the post-colonial regime is characterised by relational governance – a form of governance sutured via reciprocal relation(s) between multiple actors across dif- ferent spatial scales and milieus. Drawing on an empirical study of biofuel projects in Ghana, we believe a relational governance approach provides an analytic framework to challenge this orthodoxy in governance studies and refresh discussions on the nature of state-society relations required for effective governance of territorial resources in post- colonial regimes characterised by institutional pluralism.

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Publikationsform: Artikel in einer Zeitschrift
Keywords: territoriality; Africa; state authority; civil society organisations; human geography; relationality; biofuels; Ghana
Themengebiete aus DDC: 900 Geschichte und Geografie > 910 Geografie, Reisen
900 Geschichte und Geografie > 920 Biografie, Genealogie
Institutionen der Universität: Fakultäten
Fakultäten > Fakultät für Biologie, Chemie und Geowissenschaften > Fachgruppe Geowissenschaften > Lehrstuhl Sozial- und Bevölkerungsgeographie > Lehrstuhl Sozial- und Bevölkerungsgeographie - Univ.-Prof. Dr. Eberhard Rothfuß
Fakultäten > Fakultät für Biologie, Chemie und Geowissenschaften
Fakultäten > Fakultät für Biologie, Chemie und Geowissenschaften > Fachgruppe Geowissenschaften
Fakultäten > Fakultät für Biologie, Chemie und Geowissenschaften > Fachgruppe Geowissenschaften > Lehrstuhl Sozial- und Bevölkerungsgeographie
Sprache: Englisch
Titel an der UBT entstanden: Ja
URN: urn:nbn:de:bvb:703-epub-6580-3
Eingestellt am: 03 Aug 2022 06:25
Letzte Änderung: 03 Aug 2022 06:25
URI: https://epub.uni-bayreuth.de/id/eprint/6580

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