Darley Jose Kjosavik
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 233348 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Darley Jose Kjosavik |
| NOMBRES | Darley Jose |
| APELLIDO | Kjosavik |
| FIRMA | KJOSAVIK D J |
| AFILIACIONES | Norwegian University of Life Sciences |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 20 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 64 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 20 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2003 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2021 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
The Persistent Adivasi Demand for Land Rights and the Forest Rights Act 2006 in Kerala, India
This paper asks whether the Forest Rights Act (FRA) passed by the Government of India in 2006 could provide effective access and ownership rights to land and forests for the adivasi communities of Kerala, thereby leading to an enhancement of their entitlements. The study was conducted in Wayanad district using qualitative methods of data collection. The FRA, it would seem, raised high expectations in the State Government circles and the Adivasi c…
The Dynamics of Gender Relations under Recurrent Drought Conditions
Adaptation trajectories and challenges in the Western Ghats
Gendered forests
Samndong, R. A., and D. J. Kjosavik. 2017. Gendered forests: exploring gender dimensions in forest governance and REDD+ in Équateur Province, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Ecology and Society 22(4):34. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-09753-220434
Decentralised Local Governance and Poverty Reduction in Post-1991 Ethiopia
After 1991, Ethiopia has introduced an ethnic federal governance system constituting nine regional states and two autonomous city administrations, Addis Ababa and Dire Dawa. The restructuring of the state seemingly led to the decentralisation of power to the regions and Woreda (district authority) levels local governance structure in 1995 and 2002 respectively. The purpose of this article is to examine the practices of decentralised local governa…
State-Society Relations in Ethiopia
This article analyses state-society relations in Ethiopia with particular emphasis on the post-1991 period. The objective of the study is to identify and analyse the fundamental factors of state-society relations at the national level: property rights, political representation, and the urban-rural elite cleavage. The article views state-society relations at the local level with reference to perception and practice, taking into account symbols, so…
Living with Leopards
The relationships between humans and large carnivores are complex and dynamic. In this article, we explore the emergence of two such relations through a case study from India, where humans and leopards share space and resources. These relations between humans and leopards emerge from two distinct ontological practices. One is the “modern” practice of conservation in which the human–leopard relationship is shaped through the creation of dichotomie…
Political Economy of Development in India
In the Global South, indigenous people have been continuously subjected to top-down, and often violent, processes of post-colonial state and nation building. This book examines the development dilemmas of the indigenous people (adivasis) of the Indian state of Kerala. It explores the different facets of change in their lives and livelihoods in the context of modernisation under different political regimes. As part of the Indian Union, Kerala foll…
Valuing the ‘bundle of land rights’
Development and Environment
Politicising Development
This article discusses the initial articulation and the later re‐articulation of adivasi identities in their struggles for re‐claiming land rights. Adivasis – meaning original inhabitants – are the indigenous communities that have been living in the forested highlands of Kerala since time immemorial. Colonial anthropologists and administrators chose to describe these communities as tribes in the process of ‘othering’ them, and the post‐colonial s…
Property Rights Dynamics and Indigenous Communities in Highland Kerala, South India
Indigenous communities find themselves at the losing end of socio-economic changes taking place in diverse contexts of development. Changes in property rights to land and related resources such as forests and water have universally had adverse effects on their livelihoods, which are almost absolutely dependent on these resources and the ecosystems to which they belong. The historical processes behind these changes have their political, economic a…
Rethinking Resistance in the 21st Century
Between Decentralized Planning and Neo‐liberalism
This paper examines the experiences of decentralization under successive political regimes in Kerala in the context of neo‐liberal policies, with reference to the impact on the lives of adivasi (indigenous) communities. The Communist Party‐led government had been implementing a home‐grown programme of decentralized planning since 1996 until it lost power to the Congress Party‐led conservative coalition in 2001. In the context of the accelerated s…
Tea Agroecosystems in the Uva Highlands of Sri Lanka
The mountain ecosystems of Sri Lanka are now in crisis, with rapid degradation of the productive resource base and the environment. There are unmistakable symptoms of unsustainability in current production practices and patterns of resource use in tea agroecosystems. The present study was undertaken with the overall objective of examining the sustainability of resource use, with special reference to the land management practices on tea plantation…
Individualism and Institutional—a Rejoinder
In this rejoinder Kjosavik emphasises the importance of emergence in the explanation of economic phenomena. This means, she argues, that bottom-top explanations will not do justice to their complexity, and that any form of methodological individualism will be inadequate, including the psychological version that Andresen subscribes to. Since economics can only control phenomena through an understanding of their causes, a different approach is requ…
Concluding Remarks on Individualism and Institutionalism
Kjosavik concludes that the methodological assumptions of neoclassical economics do not allow for context-sensitivity. In her view, a theory that provides a more adequate explanation of the workings of a society would have greater potential for predictions and policy-making within that society
Integration or Exclusion? Locating Indigenous Peoples in the Development Process of Kerala, South India
The Kerala model of development, characterised by high levels of social development at relatively low levels of economic growth, has been the result of radical redistributive policies initiated by the democratically elected leftist government of this Indian state. The article takes a critical look at the Kerala model with special reference to the processes that impacted on the state's indigenous communities (adivasis). It argues that the conceptu…
More on Individualism and Institutionalism
Kjosavik expands on her critique of an exclusively bottom-top approach to economic phenomena, which rules out higher-level explanations, and also problematises the psychological approach to individual economic behaviour. She argues that even if institutions are brought about by individuals, the way they enable as well as constrain individual behaviour cannot be explained on the basis of individual actions. This means that there is an irreducible …
Methodological Individualism and Rational Choice in Neoclassical Economics
This review article is an attempt to take a critical look at methodological individualism and rational choice that form the hard core of neoclassical economics, from an institutionalist perspective. Methodological individualism is discussed as a project of reductionism, by reviewing reductionism in the context of social sciences, and by analysing methodological individualism in the context of neoclassical economics. Philosophical and institutiona…
Property Rights Dynamics and Indigenous Communities in Highland Kerala, South India
Indigenous communities find themselves at the losing end of socio-economic changes taking place in diverse contexts of development. Changes in property rights to land and related resources such as forests and water have universally had adverse effects on their livelihoods, which are almost absolutely dependent on these resources and the ecosystems to which they belong. The historical processes behind these changes have their political, economic a…
Integration or Exclusion? Locating Indigenous Peoples in the Development Process of Kerala, South India
The Kerala model of development, characterised by high levels of social development at relatively low levels of economic growth, has been the result of radical redistributive policies initiated by the democratically elected leftist government of this Indian state. The article takes a critical look at the Kerala model with special reference to the processes that impacted on the state's indigenous communities (adivasis). It argues that the conceptu…
Living with Leopards
The relationships between humans and large carnivores are complex and dynamic. In this article, we explore the emergence of two such relations through a case study from India, where humans and leopards share space and resources. These relations between humans and leopards emerge from two distinct ontological practices. One is the “modern” practice of conservation in which the human–leopard relationship is shaped through the creation of dichotomie…
Valuing the ‘bundle of land rights’
Between Decentralized Planning and Neo‐liberalism
This paper examines the experiences of decentralization under successive political regimes in Kerala in the context of neo‐liberal policies, with reference to the impact on the lives of adivasi (indigenous) communities. The Communist Party‐led government had been implementing a home‐grown programme of decentralized planning since 1996 until it lost power to the Congress Party‐led conservative coalition in 2001. In the context of the accelerated s…
The Persistent Adivasi Demand for Land Rights and the Forest Rights Act 2006 in Kerala, India
This paper asks whether the Forest Rights Act (FRA) passed by the Government of India in 2006 could provide effective access and ownership rights to land and forests for the adivasi communities of Kerala, thereby leading to an enhancement of their entitlements. The study was conducted in Wayanad district using qualitative methods of data collection. The FRA, it would seem, raised high expectations in the State Government circles and the Adivasi c…
Political Economy of Development in India
In the Global South, indigenous people have been continuously subjected to top-down, and often violent, processes of post-colonial state and nation building. This book examines the development dilemmas of the indigenous people (adivasis) of the Indian state of Kerala. It explores the different facets of change in their lives and livelihoods in the context of modernisation under different political regimes. As part of the Indian Union, Kerala foll…
Politicising Development
This article discusses the initial articulation and the later re‐articulation of adivasi identities in their struggles for re‐claiming land rights. Adivasis – meaning original inhabitants – are the indigenous communities that have been living in the forested highlands of Kerala since time immemorial. Colonial anthropologists and administrators chose to describe these communities as tribes in the process of ‘othering’ them, and the post‐colonial s…
Adaptation trajectories and challenges in the Western Ghats
Gendered forests
Samndong, R. A., and D. J. Kjosavik. 2017. Gendered forests: exploring gender dimensions in forest governance and REDD+ in Équateur Province, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Ecology and Society 22(4):34. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-09753-220434
Development and Environment
State-Society Relations in Ethiopia
This article analyses state-society relations in Ethiopia with particular emphasis on the post-1991 period. The objective of the study is to identify and analyse the fundamental factors of state-society relations at the national level: property rights, political representation, and the urban-rural elite cleavage. The article views state-society relations at the local level with reference to perception and practice, taking into account symbols, so…
Methodological Individualism and Rational Choice in Neoclassical Economics
This review article is an attempt to take a critical look at methodological individualism and rational choice that form the hard core of neoclassical economics, from an institutionalist perspective. Methodological individualism is discussed as a project of reductionism, by reviewing reductionism in the context of social sciences, and by analysing methodological individualism in the context of neoclassical economics. Philosophical and institutiona…
Tea Agroecosystems in the Uva Highlands of Sri Lanka
The mountain ecosystems of Sri Lanka are now in crisis, with rapid degradation of the productive resource base and the environment. There are unmistakable symptoms of unsustainability in current production practices and patterns of resource use in tea agroecosystems. The present study was undertaken with the overall objective of examining the sustainability of resource use, with special reference to the land management practices on tea plantation…
Individualism and Institutional—a Rejoinder
In this rejoinder Kjosavik emphasises the importance of emergence in the explanation of economic phenomena. This means, she argues, that bottom-top explanations will not do justice to their complexity, and that any form of methodological individualism will be inadequate, including the psychological version that Andresen subscribes to. Since economics can only control phenomena through an understanding of their causes, a different approach is requ…
Concluding Remarks on Individualism and Institutionalism
Kjosavik concludes that the methodological assumptions of neoclassical economics do not allow for context-sensitivity. In her view, a theory that provides a more adequate explanation of the workings of a society would have greater potential for predictions and policy-making within that society
Integration or Exclusion? Locating Indigenous Peoples in the Development Process of Kerala, South India
The Kerala model of development, characterised by high levels of social development at relatively low levels of economic growth, has been the result of radical redistributive policies initiated by the democratically elected leftist government of this Indian state. The article takes a critical look at the Kerala model with special reference to the processes that impacted on the state's indigenous communities (adivasis). It argues that the conceptu…
More on Individualism and Institutionalism
Kjosavik expands on her critique of an exclusively bottom-top approach to economic phenomena, which rules out higher-level explanations, and also problematises the psychological approach to individual economic behaviour. She argues that even if institutions are brought about by individuals, the way they enable as well as constrain individual behaviour cannot be explained on the basis of individual actions. This means that there is an irreducible …
Rethinking Resistance in the 21st Century
Between Decentralized Planning and Neo‐liberalism
This paper examines the experiences of decentralization under successive political regimes in Kerala in the context of neo‐liberal policies, with reference to the impact on the lives of adivasi (indigenous) communities. The Communist Party‐led government had been implementing a home‐grown programme of decentralized planning since 1996 until it lost power to the Congress Party‐led conservative coalition in 2001. In the context of the accelerated s…
Property Rights Dynamics and Indigenous Communities in Highland Kerala, South India
Indigenous communities find themselves at the losing end of socio-economic changes taking place in diverse contexts of development. Changes in property rights to land and related resources such as forests and water have universally had adverse effects on their livelihoods, which are almost absolutely dependent on these resources and the ecosystems to which they belong. The historical processes behind these changes have their political, economic a…
Politicising Development
This article discusses the initial articulation and the later re‐articulation of adivasi identities in their struggles for re‐claiming land rights. Adivasis – meaning original inhabitants – are the indigenous communities that have been living in the forested highlands of Kerala since time immemorial. Colonial anthropologists and administrators chose to describe these communities as tribes in the process of ‘othering’ them, and the post‐colonial s…
Development and Environment
Valuing the ‘bundle of land rights’
Living with Leopards
The relationships between humans and large carnivores are complex and dynamic. In this article, we explore the emergence of two such relations through a case study from India, where humans and leopards share space and resources. These relations between humans and leopards emerge from two distinct ontological practices. One is the “modern” practice of conservation in which the human–leopard relationship is shaped through the creation of dichotomie…
Political Economy of Development in India
In the Global South, indigenous people have been continuously subjected to top-down, and often violent, processes of post-colonial state and nation building. This book examines the development dilemmas of the indigenous people (adivasis) of the Indian state of Kerala. It explores the different facets of change in their lives and livelihoods in the context of modernisation under different political regimes. As part of the Indian Union, Kerala foll…
Decentralised Local Governance and Poverty Reduction in Post-1991 Ethiopia
After 1991, Ethiopia has introduced an ethnic federal governance system constituting nine regional states and two autonomous city administrations, Addis Ababa and Dire Dawa. The restructuring of the state seemingly led to the decentralisation of power to the regions and Woreda (district authority) levels local governance structure in 1995 and 2002 respectively. The purpose of this article is to examine the practices of decentralised local governa…
State-Society Relations in Ethiopia
This article analyses state-society relations in Ethiopia with particular emphasis on the post-1991 period. The objective of the study is to identify and analyse the fundamental factors of state-society relations at the national level: property rights, political representation, and the urban-rural elite cleavage. The article views state-society relations at the local level with reference to perception and practice, taking into account symbols, so…
Gendered forests
Samndong, R. A., and D. J. Kjosavik. 2017. Gendered forests: exploring gender dimensions in forest governance and REDD+ in Équateur Province, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Ecology and Society 22(4):34. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-09753-220434
Adaptation trajectories and challenges in the Western Ghats
The Dynamics of Gender Relations under Recurrent Drought Conditions
The Persistent Adivasi Demand for Land Rights and the Forest Rights Act 2006 in Kerala, India
This paper asks whether the Forest Rights Act (FRA) passed by the Government of India in 2006 could provide effective access and ownership rights to land and forests for the adivasi communities of Kerala, thereby leading to an enhancement of their entitlements. The study was conducted in Wayanad district using qualitative methods of data collection. The FRA, it would seem, raised high expectations in the State Government circles and the Adivasi c…
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