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Journal Article | 2025

Shadow state and the making of informal territories: Negotiating conservation and communal land reforms in the Kenyan wildlife frontier

Gargule, Achiba A. (2025)
in Political Geography vol. 120 103351 p.
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2025.103351

Recent research on community-based conservation (CBC) has adapted political ecology theories to resource frontier contexts. This paper contributes to these efforts by exploring how the notion of the shadow state in CBC planning undermines the state's capacity to enforce regulations for community land reform in historical resource frontiers.

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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2025.103351

Targeting Natural Resource Corruption (TNRC)

Aug 2018 - Mar 2023
  • Corruption
  • Climate and Natural Resources
  • Democracy and Governance
  • Kenya
  • Shadow state
  • Resource frontiers

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Hijacking legality: Corruption and property creation in Brazil's frontiers

Joachim S. Stassart, Flavia Mendes de Almeida Collaço, Dario Cardoso Jr., Renato Morgado

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Edited Book | 2025

Special Issue in Political Geography on the Political Ecology of Resource Corruption

David Aled Williams, Achiba Andrew Gargule (Eds.)

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Anti-Corruption in a Discordant World: Contestation, Abuse, and Innovation (Introduction)

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Edited Book | Jan 2026

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David Jackson, Inge Amundsen, David Aled Williams (Eds.)

Journal Article | 2025

Taliban governance and space for dialogue

Strand, Arne

Conflict, Security & Development

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