Land grabbing has transformed rural environments across the global South, generating resistance or political reactions “from below”. In authoritarian countries like Laos, where resource investments are coercively developed and insulated from political dissent, resistance appears absent at first g...
Miles, K.-L.
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Suhardiman, Diana
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Dwyer, M.B.
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[State spaces of resistance: industrial tree plantations and the struggle for land in Laos]
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State spaces of resistance: industrial tree plantations and the struggle for land in Laos
Since the late 1990s, river basin planning has become a central idea in water resources management and a mainstream approach supported by international donors through their water programs globally. This article presents river basin planning as a function of power and contested arena of power stru...
Suhardiman, Diana
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Bastakoti, Ram C.
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Karki, Emma
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Bharati, Luna
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[The politics of river basin planning and state transformation processes in Nepal]
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The politics of river basin planning and state transformation processes in Nepal
This paper investigates the spatial dimension of power relations and the shaping of local alliances through a hydropower development project in Nepal. It provides a grass-roots illustration on the role of space in shaping and reshaping power relations, and how it manifests in the formation of loc...
Suhardiman, Diana
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Karki, Emma
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[Spatial politics and local alliances shaping Nepal hydropower]
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Spatial politics and local alliances shaping Nepal hydropower
Suhardiman, Diana
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Lebel, L.
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Nicol, Alan
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Wong. T.
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[Power and politics in water governance: revisiting the role of collective action in the commons]
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Power and politics in water governance: revisiting the role of collective action in the commons
Mapedza, Everisto
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Suhardiman, Diana
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Nicol, Alan
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[Structure, agency, and challenges for inclusive water governance at basin scale: comparing Mekong with the Nile]
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Structure, agency, and challenges for inclusive water governance at basin scale: comparing Mekong with the Nile
State control of land plays a critical role in producing land dispossession throughout the Global South. In Myanmar, the state’s approach towards territorial expansion has driven the country’s system of land governance, resulting in widespread and systemic land grabbing. This article investigates...
Suhardiman, Diana
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Kenney-Lazar, M.
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Meinzen-Dick, R.
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[The contested terrain of land governance reform in Myanmar]
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The contested terrain of land governance reform in Myanmar
This article analyzes the internal logic of the upeti system in Indonesian irrigation and brings to light how corruption rules are shaped through complex socio-political relationships reflected in the organizational culture of the irrigation agency. Based on 100 interviews with water sector profe...
Suhardiman, Diana
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Mollinga, P.P.
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[Institutionalized corruption in Indonesian irrigation: an analysis of the upeti system]
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Institutionalized corruption in Indonesian irrigation: an analysis of the upeti system