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Monique Nuijten
Researcher at Wageningen University and Research Centre
Publications - 26
Citations - 842
Monique Nuijten is an academic researcher from Wageningen University and Research Centre. The author has contributed to research in topics: Agrarian society & Slum upgrading. The author has an hindex of 15, co-authored 26 publications receiving 785 citations.
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Power, Community and the State: The Political Anthropology of Organisation in Mexico
TL;DR: A esta lectura, que podriamos calificar de normativa, enla medida en que define el poder estatal en funcion de un modelopreestablecido, es necesario contraponer otras visiones masdescriptivas.
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Between fear and fantasy: Governmentality and the working of power in Mexico
TL;DR: In this paper, an in-depth ethnography is presented of land conflicts between a peasant community and private landowners in Mexico, showing how, in their fight for agrarian justice, peasants get lost in a labyrinthine bureaucratic world, in which they create their own magic, fantasies and fetishes.
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Family Property and the Limits of Intervention: The Article 27 Reforms and the PROCEDE Programme in Mexico
TL;DR: In this paper, it is demonstrated that the privatization of previously communally held ejido land did not lead to the promised dynamic land market, nor to an increase in agricultural productivity, and that legal security does not necessarily reside in official registration by the state, but can also be based on local recognition of land rights.
Power in Practice: A Force Field Approach to Natural Resource Management
TL;DR: In this article, a force field approach towards power is proposed that conceives of power as "relational" and the result of the working of multiple, intertwined institutions, and special attention is paid to the methodological implications of such an approach for studies on natural resource management.