Abstract
The breakdown of social order, social disarticulation, is a common impact of population resettlement. This article shows that social disarticulation results from the dissolution and reconstruction of authority through which people gain, maintain, and control access to essential resources in response to changes in the material conditions inherent in resettlement. Resource access—and the relations it implies—is required for long-term autonomy and security. When new patterns or hierarchies of resource control lead to some part of the group being disadvantaged via subordination to others or exclusion from resource enjoyment, resettled villages experience social disarticulation. We explore this access realignment and differentiation process in the case of the resettlement of two natural resource-dependent communities out of the Limpopo National Park in Mozambique.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 184-204 |
| Number of pages | 21 |
| Journal | Society and Natural Resources |
| Volume | 33 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| Early online date | 3 Apr 2019 |
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| Publication status | Published - 1 Feb 2020 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Bibliographical note
This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium,
provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way.
Funding
This study was made possible by funding from the United States National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program, the INREF-funded research program "Competing Claims on Natural Resources: Overcoming mismatches in resource use through a multi-scale perspective", Wageningen University, and the Knowledge, Technology and Innovation Group, of Wageningen University. We thank the residents of Nanguene and Chinhangane for their support of this work. This article was based on research conducted for a chapter in a Ph.D. thesis written by Jessica Milgroom (Milgroom, J. 2012. Elephants of democracy: an unfolding process of resettlement in the Limpopo National Park, Wageningen University).
| Funders | Funder number |
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| National Science Foundation |
Keywords
- Access
- authority
- Limpopo National Park
- Mozambique
- natural resources
- resettlement
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Development
- Environmental Science (miscellaneous)
- Sociology and Political Science