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Village land politics and the legacy of

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The paper explores the legacies of ujamaa for Tanzanian village land management through the analysis of ethnographic data. The first section considers the ujamaa legacies for Tanzanian village administrative and political institutions and the weight of past top-down politics. In the second section, village land politics are investigated in the light of the reform of the land laws in order then to underline the role of village authorities in collective land claims and to illustrate how village land allocations occur in practice. The third section analyses data from three villages to reflect on the salience of village land politics and Village Land Use Plans. Ujamaa leaves its legacy in the continuity of a potential for democratisation from below resisting the continuity of authoritarianism and centralised decision making from above.

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  • Elisa Greco, 2016. "Village land politics and the legacy of," Review of African Political Economy, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 43(0), pages 22-40, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:revape:v:43:y:2016:i:0:p:22-40
    DOI: 10.1080/03056244.2016.1219179
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    1. Giuliano Martiniello & Sabatho Nyamsenda, 2018. "Agrarian Movements in the Neoliberal Era: : The Case of MVIWATA in Tanzania," Agrarian South: Journal of Political Economy, Centre for Agrarian Research and Education for South, vol. 7(2), pages 145-172, August.
    2. Bergius, Mikael & Benjaminsen, Tor A. & Maganga, Faustin & Buhaug, Halvard, 2020. "Green economy, degradation narratives, and land-use conflicts in Tanzania," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 129(C).
    3. Juniyanti, Lila & Purnomo, Herry & Kartodihardjo, Hariadi & Prasetyo, Lilik Budi & Suryadi, & Pambudi, Eko, 2021. "Powerful actors and their networks in land use contestation for oil palm and industrial tree plantations in Riau," Forest Policy and Economics, Elsevier, vol. 129(C).

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