Connecting-Africa | Find publications

Advanced search

Find:


Title Decentralization, Participation, and Accountability in Sahelian Forestry: Legal Instruments of Political-Administrative Control
Full text http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/8037h8wk
Date 1998
Author(s) Ribot, Jesse C.
Abstract Policies of "Indirect Rule" under the British and "Association" under the French created an "institutional segregation" in which most Africans were relegated to live in a sphere of so called "customary" law (or the "indigenat") while Europeans and urban citizens obeyed civil law-customary law being an administratively driven form of State ordained and enforced regulation.... By uncritically privileging local government and "customary" authorities,... recent decentralizations and rural participatory development projects and policies can maintain and even deepen this ongoing legislated apartheid.
Subject(s) decentralization; forestry; sahel
Language english
Publisher eScholarship, University of California
Relation http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/8037h8wk
Type of publication article
Format application/pdf
Source Ribot, Jesse C.(1998). Decentralization, Participation, and Accountability in Sahelian Forestry: Legal Instruments of Political-Administrative Control. UC Berkeley: Institute of International Studies. Retrieved from: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/8037h8wk
Rights public
Identifier qt8037h8wk
Repository Berkeley - University of California
Added to C-A: 2011-10-14;11:07:38