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

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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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Targeting Natural Resource Corruption (TNRC)

Aug 2018 - Mar 2023

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

Targeting Natural Resource Corruption (TNRC)

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