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- Title
COMPETING CLAIMS ON DISPUTED LANDS: The Complexity of Resource Tenure in the Nicaraguan Interior.
- Authors
Nygren, Anja
- Abstract
This essay analyzes the complexity and contradiction of resource-tenure regimes on tropical forest frontiers by drawing on a case study carried out in the department of Río San Juan, southeastern Nicaragua. The main attention is given to competing claims over productive resources and to contradictory relationships between the diverse modalities of resource control. The resource struggles emerging in Río San Juan are analyzed in the context of larger political-economic and socio-legal processes to understand the wider relations of politics and power that affect local resource access. The main goal is to reveal how control over resources is defined and contested in the everyday reality of legal pluralism where multiple legal orders intersect in people's lives, and where the conflicts over whose law applies, and who gets what resources and why, have increasing significance.
- Subjects
NICARAGUA; LAND tenure; FORESTS &; forestry; NATURAL resources; ECONOMICS
- Publication
Latin American Research Review, 2004, Vol 39, Issue 1, p123
- ISSN
0023-8791
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/lar.2004.0015