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Journal Article | Jun 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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U4 Issue | Aug 2025

Strategic ignorance in multilateral organisations: obscuring accountability, enabling corruption

Guillaume Nicaise, Mahaut Fanchini

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