L Buur
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 8156 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | L Buur |
| NOMBRES | L |
| APELLIDO | Buur |
| FIRMA | BUUR L |
| AFILIACIONES | Roskilde University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8069-7140 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 41 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 364 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 41 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2000 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 13 |
From buying out to buying in? Exploring the politics of value creation in green energy transition projects
Investments in critical raw mineral mining and green transition investments (GTIs) are expected to grow substantially worldwide, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa. This creates a dilemma: while GTIs are essential to address global climate change, they often break down in the face of community resistance stemming from local people’s superficial inclusion. We argue that GTIs mirror traditional extractivism because they prioritise monetary compensa…
Party political campaigning and the illegal extraction of gold in Ghana
Territorializing Power
Large-scale infrastructure projects have become a defining feature of African urbanism. The study of the surge in infrastructure investments has largely been conducted against the backdrop of a purported 'neoliberal global modernity' in which cities compete to attract international investments. This article draws on the case of Antananarivo, Madagascar's capital, to contend with this framing and situate large-scale infrastructure projects within …
Politicization of Non-state Cash Transfers
Social cash transfers (CTs) have expanded considerably in Africa over the last decade. While the largest programmes are run by public institutions, non-state actors are increasingly becoming involved, but have attracted less academic attention. CTs are particular in that they are more fungible and liquid than other types of welfare provision, meaning that they are more difficult to control for both providers and governments. This article explores…
When ‘Pockets of effectiveness’ matter politically
The presource curse in Africa
The politics of natural resource investments and rights in Africa
The politics of domestic gas
Mediating bureaucrats
This article develops the concept of 'mediating bureaucrats' by exploring their role during liberal reforms that led to rehabilitation of the sugar industry in Mozambique. By focusing on how relations between the state, government and business are mediated by a group of cadres who have occupied positions in different social domains, the article argues that these 'mediating bureaucrats' cannot easily be identified in one-dimensional terms as belon…
Understanding the three key relationships in natural resource investments in Africa
No Smoke without Fire
This article explores the complicated interrelationship between economic enclaves, their associated security practices and the formation of national citizens in Mozambique. From the colonial era of company rule to the large-scale foreign direct investments of the present day, investors have feared the destructive fires of rampant 'mobs', unruly workers and the potentially rebellious populace more generally. Signs of smoke point to trouble for inv…
Power, conflict and natural resources
This article explores how the present socio-economic crisis in Mozambique is linked to the prospects of natural resource windfalls for the country. Drawing on the political settlement approach, it explores how the distribution of power both within and outside the ruling elite is structured and consequently how the underlying political processes have been shaped by the expectations of natural resource windfalls. The article argues that the present…
Bertelsen, Bjørn Enge
Anthropos , Seite 278 - 279
Studying political settlements in Africa
The political settlements approach emerged out of a critique of new institutional economics developed by Mushtaq Khan in the 1990s. Since then, the political settlements approach has proliferated in donor programming and academic scholarship on African countries. This has led to some confusion about its core conceptual and methodological features. This Research Note starts by setting out our understanding of political settlements and provides an …
Beyond land grabbing. Old morals and new perspectives on contemporary investments
The Politics of African Industrial Policy
This book engages in the debate on growth versus economic transformation and the importance of industrial policy, presenting a comprehensive framework for explaining the politics of industrial policy. Using comparative research to theorize about the politics of industrial policy in countries in the early stages of capitalist transformation that also experience the pressures of elections due to democratization, this book provides four in-depth Afr…
The Economics and Politics of Local Content in African Extractives
Extractive foreign direct investment (FDI) is heralded as the new development opportunity in Africa. A key precondition for FDI's contribution, however, is that foreign investors create ‘local content’ by linking up to the local economy. Consequently, African host governments are contemplating ways in which they can promote local content. This paper examines local content policies and practices in three African countries – Tanzania, Uganda and Mo…
Sovereignty, Riots, and Social Contestation
This article explores the enmeshment of sovereignty, riots, and social contestation. Riots have continually marked out the thresholds allowed for exceptions to be declared. As such, they have been the sovereign entity par excellence that produces the moments of politics that need to be domesticated. Interestingly, expressions of sovereignty have always presented themselves in contexts of riots and social contestation. These issues will be explore…
The politics of industrial policy
Economic transformation is driven by successfully implemented industrial policy, but industrial policy is inherently political. We cannot understand why some governments pursue and implement industrial policy better than others without understanding its politics. This article addresses the conditions under which industrial policies are successfully implemented. It presents an analytical approach to understanding why some ruling elite-capitalist a…
Security beyond the state
Security beyond the state: private security in international politics, by Rita Abrahamsen and Michael C. Williams, Cambridge and New York, Cambridge University Press, 2011, 272 pp., £19.99, ISBN 97
The White Gold
This article examines the rehabilitation of the sugar industry in Mozambique after the General Peace Accord in 1992, engaging primarily and critically with certain aspects of the business-state literature. It explains why the sugar sector was rehabilitated from the perspectives of Mozambican state, government and industry actors. The article argues that support for the industry cannot be identified in singular and one-dimensional terms, but must …
Strategic privatisation
This article argues that the rehabilitation of the sugar industry in Mozambique cannot be understood without including the active role played by the state and government. It focuses on key aspects of why and how the Mozambican sugar industry was rehabilitated after 1996 with and through foreign direct investments. It challenges the externalist literature on Mozambique that has commonly argued that all policy decisions are enforced by the pressure…
Xiconhoca
Making findings for the future
The following paper examines the ways in which the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission provided redemption to both individual perpetrators and to political organisations responsible for Gross Human Rights Violations by virtue of the particular representational ordering that was adopted. While the genealogy of this representational ordering can be traced back to the Information Management System, a data base used for capturing data a…
The Sovereign Outsourced
Introduction
Since the emergence of People Against Gangsterism And Drugs (PAGAD) and Mapogo a Mathamaga 1 in 1996, media, law enforcement and some research‐based NGOs (see for instance Pigou et al. 2001) have s
Contested Sources of Authority
In Mozambique, the current legal framework institutionalizes a rural–urban differentiation of local governance, allowing for elected representation in thirty-three urban settings and the recognition of ‘community authorities’ in rural areas. This article deals with the latter by exploring the implementation of Decree 15/2000, which is the first legislation in post-colonial Mozambique to formalize ‘traditional authority’. Views of traditional auth…
The Economics and Politics of Local Content in African Extractives
Extractive foreign direct investment (FDI) is heralded as the new development opportunity in Africa. A key precondition for FDI's contribution, however, is that foreign investors create ‘local content’ by linking up to the local economy. Consequently, African host governments are contemplating ways in which they can promote local content. This paper examines local content policies and practices in three African countries – Tanzania, Uganda and Mo…
Beyond land grabbing. Old morals and new perspectives on contemporary investments
Reordering Society
Crime and vigilantism in South Africa are generally seen as a reaction to the breakdown of formal law. Both are constituted outside the state and emerge when the new social contract has been broken — that is, when the state can no longer provide security. This article argues that there is often an intimate relationship between vigilante formations and state structures. It explores this apparent paradox through public discourses on crime and the e…
New Sites of Citizenship
Since the General Peace Accord of 1992, Mozambique has embarked on a protracted process of democratic decentralisation. The Municipal Law 2 of 1997 made provision for elected local governments in 33 urban municipalities, but not in rural areas. Instead, in the latter a little over 4,000 ‘community authorities’ have been recognised since 2002 following the passing of Decree 15 of 2000. This article examines the implementation and consequences for …
Studying political settlements in Africa
The political settlements approach emerged out of a critique of new institutional economics developed by Mushtaq Khan in the 1990s. Since then, the political settlements approach has proliferated in donor programming and academic scholarship on African countries. This has led to some confusion about its core conceptual and methodological features. This Research Note starts by setting out our understanding of political settlements and provides an …
The politics of industrial policy
Economic transformation is driven by successfully implemented industrial policy, but industrial policy is inherently political. We cannot understand why some governments pursue and implement industrial policy better than others without understanding its politics. This article addresses the conditions under which industrial policies are successfully implemented. It presents an analytical approach to understanding why some ruling elite-capitalist a…
Strategic privatisation
This article argues that the rehabilitation of the sugar industry in Mozambique cannot be understood without including the active role played by the state and government. It focuses on key aspects of why and how the Mozambican sugar industry was rehabilitated after 1996 with and through foreign direct investments. It challenges the externalist literature on Mozambique that has commonly argued that all policy decisions are enforced by the pressure…
Democracy & its Discontents
This article argues that due to the particular position of crime in South Africa, the resurgence of vigilantism needs to be re-evaluated in light of the country's attempt at institutionalising human rights as the new society's founding values. Because many township dwellers see vigilantes as their protection against crime, vigilantism should be seen as a criticism of and a comment on human rights as the new expression of the country's most intima…
An uneasy marriage
This article looks at the inclusion of non-state actors in security sector reform (SSR) programming, specifically when efforts are made to strengthen local-level security through police reform. It explores how the role of non-state actors has been conceptualised vis-à-vis the role of states as providers of security and justice in fragile state settings. It is argued that even though the central role of non-state actors in SSR in general and polic…
The Horror of the Mob
Images of uncontrolled mob violence continue to influence political concerns and float media reportage in South Africa. The images resemble those of angry and destructive black `struggle' youth toyi-toying in front of burning tyres, cleansing the township of its enemies and attacking state officials during the apartheid era. Today, such actions are portrayed as the manoeuvres of a lost generation destroying the fruits of democracy and undermining…
Everyday policing and the occult
Informal or communal forms of policing - those we term "everyday" in the Introduction to this volume - draw their legitimacy from two primary sources: they detect, investigate and adjudicate crime
Power, conflict and natural resources
This article explores how the present socio-economic crisis in Mozambique is linked to the prospects of natural resource windfalls for the country. Drawing on the political settlement approach, it explores how the distribution of power both within and outside the ruling elite is structured and consequently how the underlying political processes have been shaped by the expectations of natural resource windfalls. The article argues that the present…
No Smoke without Fire
This article explores the complicated interrelationship between economic enclaves, their associated security practices and the formation of national citizens in Mozambique. From the colonial era of company rule to the large-scale foreign direct investments of the present day, investors have feared the destructive fires of rampant 'mobs', unruly workers and the potentially rebellious populace more generally. Signs of smoke point to trouble for inv…
The presource curse in Africa
Party political campaigning and the illegal extraction of gold in Ghana
Sovereignty, Riots, and Social Contestation
This article explores the enmeshment of sovereignty, riots, and social contestation. Riots have continually marked out the thresholds allowed for exceptions to be declared. As such, they have been the sovereign entity par excellence that produces the moments of politics that need to be domesticated. Interestingly, expressions of sovereignty have always presented themselves in contexts of riots and social contestation. These issues will be explore…
The politics of domestic gas
Sovereignty & democratic exclusion in the new South Africa
In this essay I will outline the contours of the attempt by the ANC government to reorder state-civil society relations. This will be done by delineating the form of civil society participation that the government has promulgated in the field of justice enforcement in order to ‘tame’ or direct the uncontrolled aspects and forces of self-organisation emanating from the struggle against apartheid known as ‘people’s power’. The article will argue th…
Politicization of Non-state Cash Transfers
Social cash transfers (CTs) have expanded considerably in Africa over the last decade. While the largest programmes are run by public institutions, non-state actors are increasingly becoming involved, but have attracted less academic attention. CTs are particular in that they are more fungible and liquid than other types of welfare provision, meaning that they are more difficult to control for both providers and governments. This article explores…
The politics of natural resource investments and rights in Africa
Territorializing Power
Large-scale infrastructure projects have become a defining feature of African urbanism. The study of the surge in infrastructure investments has largely been conducted against the backdrop of a purported 'neoliberal global modernity' in which cities compete to attract international investments. This article draws on the case of Antananarivo, Madagascar's capital, to contend with this framing and situate large-scale infrastructure projects within …
When ‘Pockets of effectiveness’ matter politically
Security beyond the state
Security beyond the state: private security in international politics, by Rita Abrahamsen and Michael C. Williams, Cambridge and New York, Cambridge University Press, 2011, 272 pp., £19.99, ISBN 97
Negotiating ambivalence
Interpreters working for the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission often found they had to interpret accounts which were both terrifying and had a highly personal resonance with themselves. This article will, on the basis of ethnographic field‐material, outline some of the strategies and tactics the interpreters applied in order to maintain their professionalism in the quest for reconciliation that was the overall objective of the Com…
The South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission
The South African Truth Commission
1Centre for Development Research, Copenhagen The South African Truth Commission Kenneth Christie London Macmillan 2000 viii + 187 £42.50 0 33369126 1
Making findings for the future
The following paper examines the ways in which the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission provided redemption to both individual perpetrators and to political organisations responsible for Gross Human Rights Violations by virtue of the particular representational ordering that was adopted. While the genealogy of this representational ordering can be traced back to the Information Management System, a database used for capturing data ab…
Crime and Punishment on the Margins of the Postapartheid State
This article examines how communities on the margin of the new postapartheid state reclaim “stolen goods” and deal with “criminals” in ways that inflict physical punishment and are often profoundly brutal or violent. It explores how the use of corporal punishment in the form of beatings and other forms of inflicting pain comes to be seen as both necessary and legitimate by the affected communities. Crime is often articulated by township communiti…
Everyday policing and the occult
Informal or communal forms of policing - those we term "everyday" in the Introduction to this volume - draw their legitimacy from two primary sources: they detect, investigate and adjudicate crime
Introduction
Since the emergence of People Against Gangsterism And Drugs (PAGAD) and Mapogo a Mathamaga 1 in 1996, media, law enforcement and some research‐based NGOs (see for instance Pigou et al. 2001) have s
Sovereignty & democratic exclusion in the new South Africa
In this essay I will outline the contours of the attempt by the ANC government to reorder state-civil society relations. This will be done by delineating the form of civil society participation that the government has promulgated in the field of justice enforcement in order to ‘tame’ or direct the uncontrolled aspects and forces of self-organisation emanating from the struggle against apartheid known as ‘people’s power’. The article will argue th…
Reordering Society
Crime and vigilantism in South Africa are generally seen as a reaction to the breakdown of formal law. Both are constituted outside the state and emerge when the new social contract has been broken — that is, when the state can no longer provide security. This article argues that there is often an intimate relationship between vigilante formations and state structures. It explores this apparent paradox through public discourses on crime and the e…
Contested Sources of Authority
In Mozambique, the current legal framework institutionalizes a rural–urban differentiation of local governance, allowing for elected representation in thirty-three urban settings and the recognition of ‘community authorities’ in rural areas. This article deals with the latter by exploring the implementation of Decree 15/2000, which is the first legislation in post-colonial Mozambique to formalize ‘traditional authority’. Views of traditional auth…
New Sites of Citizenship
Since the General Peace Accord of 1992, Mozambique has embarked on a protracted process of democratic decentralisation. The Municipal Law 2 of 1997 made provision for elected local governments in 33 urban municipalities, but not in rural areas. Instead, in the latter a little over 4,000 ‘community authorities’ have been recognised since 2002 following the passing of Decree 15 of 2000. This article examines the implementation and consequences for …
Introduction
The ambiguous nature of the relationship between traditional leaders and postcolonial states has been a recurring theme in sub-Saharan Africa since the achievement of independence. 1 This is due in part to colonial systems of governance, which, through a combination of direct and indirect forms of rule, incorporated traditional leaders as an extension of colonial regimes in order to extract human and natural resources and curb organized resistanc…
Traditional Authority in Mozambique
This chapter explores the recent state recognition of traditional authority in postwar Mozambique in general and discusses in particular how legislation was implemented in the former rural war zones and opposition strongholds of Sussundenga District, Manica Province. The context for this recognition of traditional authority emerged from a dominant political concern on how to proceed with decentralization in rural areas of postwar Mozambique. In a…
Democracy & its Discontents
This article argues that due to the particular position of crime in South Africa, the resurgence of vigilantism needs to be re-evaluated in light of the country's attempt at institutionalising human rights as the new society's founding values. Because many township dwellers see vigilantes as their protection against crime, vigilantism should be seen as a criticism of and a comment on human rights as the new expression of the country's most intima…
The Sovereign Outsourced
An uneasy marriage
This article looks at the inclusion of non-state actors in security sector reform (SSR) programming, specifically when efforts are made to strengthen local-level security through police reform. It explores how the role of non-state actors has been conceptualised vis-à-vis the role of states as providers of security and justice in fragile state settings. It is argued that even though the central role of non-state actors in SSR in general and polic…
The Horror of the Mob
Images of uncontrolled mob violence continue to influence political concerns and float media reportage in South Africa. The images resemble those of angry and destructive black `struggle' youth toyi-toying in front of burning tyres, cleansing the township of its enemies and attacking state officials during the apartheid era. Today, such actions are portrayed as the manoeuvres of a lost generation destroying the fruits of democracy and undermining…
Xiconhoca
Making findings for the future
The following paper examines the ways in which the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission provided redemption to both individual perpetrators and to political organisations responsible for Gross Human Rights Violations by virtue of the particular representational ordering that was adopted. While the genealogy of this representational ordering can be traced back to the Information Management System, a data base used for capturing data a…
Strategic privatisation
This article argues that the rehabilitation of the sugar industry in Mozambique cannot be understood without including the active role played by the state and government. It focuses on key aspects of why and how the Mozambican sugar industry was rehabilitated after 1996 with and through foreign direct investments. It challenges the externalist literature on Mozambique that has commonly argued that all policy decisions are enforced by the pressure…
The White Gold
This article examines the rehabilitation of the sugar industry in Mozambique after the General Peace Accord in 1992, engaging primarily and critically with certain aspects of the business-state literature. It explains why the sugar sector was rehabilitated from the perspectives of Mozambican state, government and industry actors. The article argues that support for the industry cannot be identified in singular and one-dimensional terms, but must …
Security beyond the state
Security beyond the state: private security in international politics, by Rita Abrahamsen and Michael C. Williams, Cambridge and New York, Cambridge University Press, 2011, 272 pp., £19.99, ISBN 97
The politics of industrial policy
Economic transformation is driven by successfully implemented industrial policy, but industrial policy is inherently political. We cannot understand why some governments pursue and implement industrial policy better than others without understanding its politics. This article addresses the conditions under which industrial policies are successfully implemented. It presents an analytical approach to understanding why some ruling elite-capitalist a…
The Politics of African Industrial Policy
This book engages in the debate on growth versus economic transformation and the importance of industrial policy, presenting a comprehensive framework for explaining the politics of industrial policy. Using comparative research to theorize about the politics of industrial policy in countries in the early stages of capitalist transformation that also experience the pressures of elections due to democratization, this book provides four in-depth Afr…
The Economics and Politics of Local Content in African Extractives
Extractive foreign direct investment (FDI) is heralded as the new development opportunity in Africa. A key precondition for FDI's contribution, however, is that foreign investors create ‘local content’ by linking up to the local economy. Consequently, African host governments are contemplating ways in which they can promote local content. This paper examines local content policies and practices in three African countries – Tanzania, Uganda and Mo…
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