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| Volume 105(1) 2005, pages: 17-28. | | Nina Banerjee & Kristina P. M. Bojsen: | Negotiability and limits to negotiability - land use strategies in the SALCRA Batang Ai Resettlement Scheme, Sarawak, East Malaysia | | This paper analyses negotiations of land-use strategies in a combined
governmentally controlled plantation and resettlement
scheme in Sarawak. Referring to an overall concept of social
processes being open-ended and hence negotiable, we argue that
negotiations must be understood as a combination of practices at
different levels that directly or indirectly form and transform land
use strategies. After investigating two examples of land use negotiations
we found that simple every-day practices such as selling
plantation crops off-scheme can have just as strong implications for
land use strategies as the political decisions concerning land rights.
Due to this, local people are able to form and transform land use
even under governmental pressure and commercialisation despite
lacking influence in the forming of rural development policies. Yet,
there are also limits to their ability to negotiate. | | >> download as pdf |
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