Aurore Chaigneau, Le Droit de propriété en mutation

Dans cette analyse minutieuse de la théorie du droit en Russie, Aurore Chaigneau nous expose le cheminement de l’idée et de la pratique de la propriété en Russie pendant plus de deux siècles. L’ouvrage présente un récit historique culminant dans une discussion  des solutions possibles en matière de droit à la gestion, la maîtrise et l’appropriation des biens complexes, particulièrement les ressources naturelles. Cet approfondissement est particulièrement bienvenu dans un contexte global de re..

Le Droit de propriété en mutationAurore CHAIGNEAU

Aurore CHAIGNEAU, Le Droit de propriété en mutation, Essai à la lumière du droit russe, Paris : Dalloz, 2008, 683 p. Dans cette analyse minutieuse de la théorie du droit en Russie, Aurore Chaigneau nous expose le cheminement de l’idée et de la pratique de la propriété en Russie pendant plus de deux siècles. L’ouvrage présente un récit historique culminant dans une discussion des solutions possibles en matière de droit à la gestion, la maîtrise et l’appropriation des biens complexes, particuli..

On the Limits of Liberalism in Participatory Environmental Governance: Conflict and Conservation in Ukraine\u27s Danube Delta

Participatory management techniques are widely promoted in environmental and protected area governance as a means of preventing and mitigating conflict. The World Bank project that created Ukraine’s Danube Biosphere Reserve included such ‘community participation’ components. The Reserve, however, has been involved in conflicts and scandals in which rumour, denunciation and prayer have played a prominent part. The cases described in this article demonstrate that the way conflict is escalated and mitigated differs according to foundational assumptions about what ‘the political’ is and what counts as ‘politics’. The contrasting forms of politics at work in the Danube Delta help to explain why a 2005 World Bank assessment report could only see failure in the Reserve’s implementation of participatory management, and why liberal participatory management approaches may founder when introduced in settings where relationships are based on non-liberal political ontologies. The author argues that environmental management needs to be rethought in ways that take ontological differences seriously rather than assuming the universality of liberal assumptions about the individual, the political and politics

Authority in rebel groups: identity, recognition and the struggle over legitimacy

This article asks how rebel leaders capture and lose legitimacy within their own movement. Analysing these complex and often uneasy relations between elites and grassroots of insurgency is important for understanding the success or failure of peace processes. This is because internal contestation over authority between rival rebel leaders can drive a movement’s external strategy. Based on ethnographic research on the Karen and Kachin rebellions in Myanmar and insights from Political Sociology, the article suggests that leadership authority is linked to social identification and the claim to recognition among insurgent grassroots. If rebel leaders manage to satisfy their grassroots’ claim to recognition, their insurgent orders are stable. Failing this, their authority erodes and is likely to be challenged. These findings contribute to understanding insurgency and peace negotiations in Myanmar and civil wars more generally by showing how struggles over legitimacy within rebel groups drive wider dynamics of war and peace

Governance of production co-operatives in Russian agriculture

Many Soviet kolkhozy and sovkhozy were transformed into agricultural production co-operatives, because the farm workers would have had large transaction costs in any other type of organization. These co-operatives still hold a strong market position. This study explores the hypothesis that this market strength could be due to low governance costs, obtained through strong manager power. As managers want the co-operative to survive, they make limited investments in the co-operative and pay low wages. The members, however, do not consider this to be problematic. They appreciate the community within the village, their private plots of land and the co-operative's services. Hence the existence of the co-operatives is not threatened

From constituting communities to dividing districts: The formalization of a cultural border between mombasa and its hinterland

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