Tibetan buddhist monastery-based rangeland governance in Amdo Tibet, China

Tsering (huadancairang), Palden

Land Use Policy, 2023, vol. 131, issue C

Abstract: The conventional understanding of governance highlights the state’s coercive and formal mechanisms. However, the everyday political control of the state is informal and ambiguous, and powerful civil societies strengthen resource governance through interactions between civil society, social organisations, and governments. In the case of pastoral Golok, China, the role of the local state is highly mediated by the power of the monastery and the monastic organisation, and much of the opportunities for compromise, negotiation and resistance on rangeland utilisation emerge from the ambiguities of land control, and different overlapping claims can be made through competing discourses on development and conservation.

Keywords: Rangeland; Governance; Assemblage; Monasteries; Golok; Land policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2023.106756

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