Gemma Van Der Haar
Biographic Data
| ID | 96863 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gemma Van Der Haar |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gemma |
| FAMILY NAME | Van Der Haar |
| SIGNATURE | VAN DER HAAR G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Wageningen University & Research |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8366-4467 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 153 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
From Insurgency to Local Politics the Case of the Former Farc-EP Insurgent Guillermo Torres in Turbaco, Colombia
Political participation by the former FARC-EP in Colombia remains challenging. Yet, despite limited acceptance of ex-rebels by Colombian society, ex-insurgent Guillermo Torres successfully ran for office in the municipality of Turbaco. We observe how he negotiated his identity as former rebel, revolutionary musician, and son-of-the-soil, to make himself a credible candidate, and to implement a progressive agenda. We challenge mainstream perspecti…
Localized land tenure registration in Burundi and eastern DR Congo: Contributing to sustainable peace
The last two decades, a variety of –mostly donor-led– initiatives have aimed at ‘localizing’ land tenure registration, specifically in conflict-affected settings, making the registration of land rights more accessible to rural smallholders. In such settings, land registration is seen not just as instrumental to tenure security and economic development; but also to prevent land-related violence and promote sustainable peace. However, to reach such…
Covid-19 in Sub-Saharan Africa: Impacts on land, governance, and livelihoods
This paper focuses on the impacts of COVID-19 on livelihoods, land access and governance in rural and peri-urban selected areas of Sub-Saharan Africa. Crises are usually expected to be worse for citizens in developing countries since most of their economic activities are in the informal sector, and access to the social protection programs is often limited and exclusionary. Those vulnerable and marginalized are often those who are hit the hardest …
Dignity for the Voiceless: Willem Assies's Anthropological Work in Context
Willem Assies died in 2010 at the age of 55. The various stages of his career as a political anthropologist of Latin American illustrate how astute a researcher he was. He had a keen eye for the contradictions he observed during his fieldwork but also enjoyed theoretical debate. A distrust of power led him not only to attempt to understand "people without voice" but to work alongside them so they could discover and find their own voice. Willem As…
From resolving land disputes to agrarian justice - dealing with the structural crisis of plantation agriculture in eastern DR Congo
n Contains fulltext :\n 247725.pdf (Publisher's version ) (Open Access)\n \n Contains fulltext :\n 247726.pdf (Publisher's version ) (Open Access)\n
Promoting land tenure security for sustainable peace — lessons on the politics of transformation
Literature on transformations to sustainability increasingly recognizes transformation as inherently political, but the field still struggles to study these politics. Our research project ‘Securing Tenure, Sustainable Peace?’ on efforts to localize land registration in conflict-affected settings, both illustrates and contributes to understanding the politics of transformation. Building on insights from political ecology/economy, legal and politic…
Necessity or choice: Women’s migration to artisanal mining regions in eastern DRC
Women have long remained invisible in representations of artisanal mining in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. Based on original field data, this paper seeks to fill that gap. It shows how women come to mining sites with the hope of finding a degree of security, economic possibilities and the start of a new life. Contrary to what dominant discourses on the “resource curse” and sexual violence towards women have suggested, women may find a deg…
Defusing Land Disputes? The Politics of Land Certification and Dispute Resolution in Burundi
There is a growing interest in localized land registration, in which user rights are acknowledged and recorded through a community-based procedure, as an alternative to centralized titling to promote secure tenure in sub-Saharan Africa. Localized land registration is expected to reduce land disputes, yet it remains unclear how it impacts disputes in practice. This is an urgent question for war-affected settings that experience sensitive land disp…
Claim-making as social practice – Land, politics and conflict in Africa
Living Maoist gender ideology: Experiences of women ex-combatants in Nepal
Studies of women’s participation in civil conflict as armed combatants have attributed diverse motivations to such participation and examined the implications of participation for women’s empowerment in the aftermath. The authors contribute to these studies through an in-depth analysis of female combatants’ struggles for equality and empowerment during and after Nepal’s decade-long Maoist conflict. Scholars have argued that the emphasis of Maoist…
Intricate links: Displacement, ethno-political conflict, and claim-making to land in Burundi
Social mobilisation and violence at the mining frontier: The case of Honduras
Willem Assies: Una Vida Entre Libros
Tabula Rasa es una revista científica del área de las ciencias sociales con una periodicidad trimestral, dedicada principalmente a las disciplinas de la Antropología, Historia, Sociología, Trabajo Social, Geografía Humana y Estudios Culturales
The moving frontiers of genetically modified soy production: Shifts in land control in the Argentinian Chaco
This article attempts to understand how control over land (power in practice) is built, achieved and contested in the context of land transfers involving pressures over possession rights in Santiago del Estero in northern Argentina. Here new forms of land control - due to expansion of the speculative, soy and cattle frontiers - are changing and involve new relationships while using novel mechanisms to gain and maintain control. The article adopts…
Is disaster “normal” for indigenous people? Indigenous knowledge and coping practices
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to contribute to debates on the value of indigenous knowledge for disaster risk reduction. Recent international policy papers advocate the importance of indigenous knowledge and calls for its recognition. The paper aims to explore these issues in the everyday practices of disaster response by indigenous peoples and surrounding actors. Design/methodology/approach – The paper is based on a total of seven month…
Theorizing the Land–Violent Conflict Nexus
Not only a man's world: Women's involvement in artisanal mining in eastern DRC
Capacity builders for governance: Community-driven reconstruction in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo
Community-driven reconstruction (CDR) has become a new paradigm in post-conflict development. It combines infrastructure restoration with introducing good governance at the local level. Recent evaluations show that governance objectives are not easily met and significant change cannot be demonstrated. This paper adds to this argument on the basis of ethnographic research on a CDR programme in eastern DRC. It seeks to find explanations for the lac…
Interactive research and the construction of knowledge in conflict-affected settings
This paper contributes to ongoing debates about the possibilities/impossibilities and particular challenges related to conducting field research in conflict settings by addressing a particular topic of concern: collaboration between researchers, organisations, respondents, and other actors present in the field. Whereas collaboration with local actors has been common for reasons of access and security, there seems to be a lack of recognition of th…
Reconstruction ‘From Below’: A new magic bullet or shooting from the hip
This article examines an emerging approach, called ‘reconstruction from below’, and its growing body of practice. The article argues that interventions for post-war reconstruction increasingly espouse a commitment to be bottom-up and contextually relevant, to look beyond state institutions, and to provide space for local ownership. The article traces the emergence of this approach to six factors present in international policy. It then examines t…
Mayan voices for human rights: Displaced Catholics in Highland Chiapas - By Christine Kovic
Chiapas and the Zapatistas: Filling in the Picture
Mayan lives, Mayan Utopias: The Indigenous Peoples of Chiapas and the Zapatista Rebellion, edited by Jan Rus, Rosalva Aída Hernández Castillo, and Shannan L. Mattiace. Lanham etc: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2003. – To See with Two Eyes: Peasant Activism and Indian Autonomy in Chiapas, Mexico, by Shannan L. Mattiace. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2003. – Mayan Suffering, Mayan Rights: Faith and Citizenship among Catholic Tzo…
Land reform, the state, and the Zapatista uprising in Chiapas
This article connects the land reform process in eastern Chiapas to the Zapatista uprising. It argues that land reform was one of the main avenues of State formation during the twentieth century and had far-reaching social and political implications that are crucial to our understanding of the political project developed by the Zapatistas. More particularly, it examines how the historical experience of land reform has fed into the Zapatista polit…
The Zapatista Uprising and the Struggle for Indigenous Autonomy
nnb
Gaining ground: Land reform and the constitution of community in the Tojolabal Highlands of Chiapas, Mexico
This study reconstructs the process of land redistribution in an indigenous region of Chiapas, the Tojolabal Highlands, situated between the better known Central Highlands and the Lacandona Rainforest. Until 1930 this region was dominated by large private estates or fincas , owned by families from Comitán. Usually 3000 ha in size, these fincas were dedicated to cattle ranching and some agriculture. The ancestors of the present inhabitants of the …
Theorizing the Land–Violent Conflict Nexus
The moving frontiers of genetically modified soy production: Shifts in land control in the Argentinian Chaco
This article attempts to understand how control over land (power in practice) is built, achieved and contested in the context of land transfers involving pressures over possession rights in Santiago del Estero in northern Argentina. Here new forms of land control - due to expansion of the speculative, soy and cattle frontiers - are changing and involve new relationships while using novel mechanisms to gain and maintain control. The article adopts…
Social mobilisation and violence at the mining frontier: The case of Honduras
Land reform, the state, and the Zapatista uprising in Chiapas
This article connects the land reform process in eastern Chiapas to the Zapatista uprising. It argues that land reform was one of the main avenues of State formation during the twentieth century and had far-reaching social and political implications that are crucial to our understanding of the political project developed by the Zapatistas. More particularly, it examines how the historical experience of land reform has fed into the Zapatista polit…
Interactive research and the construction of knowledge in conflict-affected settings
This paper contributes to ongoing debates about the possibilities/impossibilities and particular challenges related to conducting field research in conflict settings by addressing a particular topic of concern: collaboration between researchers, organisations, respondents, and other actors present in the field. Whereas collaboration with local actors has been common for reasons of access and security, there seems to be a lack of recognition of th…
Intricate links: Displacement, ethno-political conflict, and claim-making to land in Burundi
The Zapatista Uprising and the Struggle for Indigenous Autonomy
nnb
Claim-making as social practice – Land, politics and conflict in Africa
Living Maoist gender ideology: Experiences of women ex-combatants in Nepal
Studies of women’s participation in civil conflict as armed combatants have attributed diverse motivations to such participation and examined the implications of participation for women’s empowerment in the aftermath. The authors contribute to these studies through an in-depth analysis of female combatants’ struggles for equality and empowerment during and after Nepal’s decade-long Maoist conflict. Scholars have argued that the emphasis of Maoist…
Gaining ground: Land reform and the constitution of community in the Tojolabal Highlands of Chiapas, Mexico
This study reconstructs the process of land redistribution in an indigenous region of Chiapas, the Tojolabal Highlands, situated between the better known Central Highlands and the Lacandona Rainforest. Until 1930 this region was dominated by large private estates or fincas , owned by families from Comitán. Usually 3000 ha in size, these fincas were dedicated to cattle ranching and some agriculture. The ancestors of the present inhabitants of the …
From resolving land disputes to agrarian justice - dealing with the structural crisis of plantation agriculture in eastern DR Congo
n Contains fulltext :\n 247725.pdf (Publisher's version ) (Open Access)\n \n Contains fulltext :\n 247726.pdf (Publisher's version ) (Open Access)\n
Reconstruction ‘From Below’: A new magic bullet or shooting from the hip
This article examines an emerging approach, called ‘reconstruction from below’, and its growing body of practice. The article argues that interventions for post-war reconstruction increasingly espouse a commitment to be bottom-up and contextually relevant, to look beyond state institutions, and to provide space for local ownership. The article traces the emergence of this approach to six factors present in international policy. It then examines t…
Localized land tenure registration in Burundi and eastern DR Congo: Contributing to sustainable peace
The last two decades, a variety of –mostly donor-led– initiatives have aimed at ‘localizing’ land tenure registration, specifically in conflict-affected settings, making the registration of land rights more accessible to rural smallholders. In such settings, land registration is seen not just as instrumental to tenure security and economic development; but also to prevent land-related violence and promote sustainable peace. However, to reach such…
Promoting land tenure security for sustainable peace — lessons on the politics of transformation
Literature on transformations to sustainability increasingly recognizes transformation as inherently political, but the field still struggles to study these politics. Our research project ‘Securing Tenure, Sustainable Peace?’ on efforts to localize land registration in conflict-affected settings, both illustrates and contributes to understanding the politics of transformation. Building on insights from political ecology/economy, legal and politic…
Capacity builders for governance: Community-driven reconstruction in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo
Community-driven reconstruction (CDR) has become a new paradigm in post-conflict development. It combines infrastructure restoration with introducing good governance at the local level. Recent evaluations show that governance objectives are not easily met and significant change cannot be demonstrated. This paper adds to this argument on the basis of ethnographic research on a CDR programme in eastern DRC. It seeks to find explanations for the lac…
From Insurgency to Local Politics the Case of the Former Farc-EP Insurgent Guillermo Torres in Turbaco, Colombia
Political participation by the former FARC-EP in Colombia remains challenging. Yet, despite limited acceptance of ex-rebels by Colombian society, ex-insurgent Guillermo Torres successfully ran for office in the municipality of Turbaco. We observe how he negotiated his identity as former rebel, revolutionary musician, and son-of-the-soil, to make himself a credible candidate, and to implement a progressive agenda. We challenge mainstream perspecti…
Defusing Land Disputes? The Politics of Land Certification and Dispute Resolution in Burundi
There is a growing interest in localized land registration, in which user rights are acknowledged and recorded through a community-based procedure, as an alternative to centralized titling to promote secure tenure in sub-Saharan Africa. Localized land registration is expected to reduce land disputes, yet it remains unclear how it impacts disputes in practice. This is an urgent question for war-affected settings that experience sensitive land disp…
Gaining ground: Land reform and the constitution of community in the Tojolabal Highlands of Chiapas, Mexico
This study reconstructs the process of land redistribution in an indigenous region of Chiapas, the Tojolabal Highlands, situated between the better known Central Highlands and the Lacandona Rainforest. Until 1930 this region was dominated by large private estates or fincas , owned by families from Comitán. Usually 3000 ha in size, these fincas were dedicated to cattle ranching and some agriculture. The ancestors of the present inhabitants of the …
The Zapatista Uprising and the Struggle for Indigenous Autonomy
nnb
Chiapas and the Zapatistas: Filling in the Picture
Mayan lives, Mayan Utopias: The Indigenous Peoples of Chiapas and the Zapatista Rebellion, edited by Jan Rus, Rosalva Aída Hernández Castillo, and Shannan L. Mattiace. Lanham etc: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2003. – To See with Two Eyes: Peasant Activism and Indian Autonomy in Chiapas, Mexico, by Shannan L. Mattiace. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2003. – Mayan Suffering, Mayan Rights: Faith and Citizenship among Catholic Tzo…
Land reform, the state, and the Zapatista uprising in Chiapas
This article connects the land reform process in eastern Chiapas to the Zapatista uprising. It argues that land reform was one of the main avenues of State formation during the twentieth century and had far-reaching social and political implications that are crucial to our understanding of the political project developed by the Zapatistas. More particularly, it examines how the historical experience of land reform has fed into the Zapatista polit…
Mayan voices for human rights: Displaced Catholics in Highland Chiapas - By Christine Kovic
Reconstruction ‘From Below’: A new magic bullet or shooting from the hip
This article examines an emerging approach, called ‘reconstruction from below’, and its growing body of practice. The article argues that interventions for post-war reconstruction increasingly espouse a commitment to be bottom-up and contextually relevant, to look beyond state institutions, and to provide space for local ownership. The article traces the emergence of this approach to six factors present in international policy. It then examines t…
Interactive research and the construction of knowledge in conflict-affected settings
This paper contributes to ongoing debates about the possibilities/impossibilities and particular challenges related to conducting field research in conflict settings by addressing a particular topic of concern: collaboration between researchers, organisations, respondents, and other actors present in the field. Whereas collaboration with local actors has been common for reasons of access and security, there seems to be a lack of recognition of th…
Not only a man's world: Women's involvement in artisanal mining in eastern DRC
Capacity builders for governance: Community-driven reconstruction in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo
Community-driven reconstruction (CDR) has become a new paradigm in post-conflict development. It combines infrastructure restoration with introducing good governance at the local level. Recent evaluations show that governance objectives are not easily met and significant change cannot be demonstrated. This paper adds to this argument on the basis of ethnographic research on a CDR programme in eastern DRC. It seeks to find explanations for the lac…
Is disaster “normal” for indigenous people? Indigenous knowledge and coping practices
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to contribute to debates on the value of indigenous knowledge for disaster risk reduction. Recent international policy papers advocate the importance of indigenous knowledge and calls for its recognition. The paper aims to explore these issues in the everyday practices of disaster response by indigenous peoples and surrounding actors. Design/methodology/approach – The paper is based on a total of seven month…
Theorizing the Land–Violent Conflict Nexus
Social mobilisation and violence at the mining frontier: The case of Honduras
Willem Assies: Una Vida Entre Libros
Tabula Rasa es una revista científica del área de las ciencias sociales con una periodicidad trimestral, dedicada principalmente a las disciplinas de la Antropología, Historia, Sociología, Trabajo Social, Geografía Humana y Estudios Culturales
The moving frontiers of genetically modified soy production: Shifts in land control in the Argentinian Chaco
This article attempts to understand how control over land (power in practice) is built, achieved and contested in the context of land transfers involving pressures over possession rights in Santiago del Estero in northern Argentina. Here new forms of land control - due to expansion of the speculative, soy and cattle frontiers - are changing and involve new relationships while using novel mechanisms to gain and maintain control. The article adopts…
Living Maoist gender ideology: Experiences of women ex-combatants in Nepal
Studies of women’s participation in civil conflict as armed combatants have attributed diverse motivations to such participation and examined the implications of participation for women’s empowerment in the aftermath. The authors contribute to these studies through an in-depth analysis of female combatants’ struggles for equality and empowerment during and after Nepal’s decade-long Maoist conflict. Scholars have argued that the emphasis of Maoist…
Intricate links: Displacement, ethno-political conflict, and claim-making to land in Burundi
Claim-making as social practice – Land, politics and conflict in Africa
Necessity or choice: Women’s migration to artisanal mining regions in eastern DRC
Women have long remained invisible in representations of artisanal mining in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. Based on original field data, this paper seeks to fill that gap. It shows how women come to mining sites with the hope of finding a degree of security, economic possibilities and the start of a new life. Contrary to what dominant discourses on the “resource curse” and sexual violence towards women have suggested, women may find a deg…
Defusing Land Disputes? The Politics of Land Certification and Dispute Resolution in Burundi
There is a growing interest in localized land registration, in which user rights are acknowledged and recorded through a community-based procedure, as an alternative to centralized titling to promote secure tenure in sub-Saharan Africa. Localized land registration is expected to reduce land disputes, yet it remains unclear how it impacts disputes in practice. This is an urgent question for war-affected settings that experience sensitive land disp…
Promoting land tenure security for sustainable peace — lessons on the politics of transformation
Literature on transformations to sustainability increasingly recognizes transformation as inherently political, but the field still struggles to study these politics. Our research project ‘Securing Tenure, Sustainable Peace?’ on efforts to localize land registration in conflict-affected settings, both illustrates and contributes to understanding the politics of transformation. Building on insights from political ecology/economy, legal and politic…
Dignity for the Voiceless: Willem Assies's Anthropological Work in Context
Willem Assies died in 2010 at the age of 55. The various stages of his career as a political anthropologist of Latin American illustrate how astute a researcher he was. He had a keen eye for the contradictions he observed during his fieldwork but also enjoyed theoretical debate. A distrust of power led him not only to attempt to understand "people without voice" but to work alongside them so they could discover and find their own voice. Willem As…
From resolving land disputes to agrarian justice - dealing with the structural crisis of plantation agriculture in eastern DR Congo
n Contains fulltext :\n 247725.pdf (Publisher's version ) (Open Access)\n \n Contains fulltext :\n 247726.pdf (Publisher's version ) (Open Access)\n
From Insurgency to Local Politics the Case of the Former Farc-EP Insurgent Guillermo Torres in Turbaco, Colombia
Political participation by the former FARC-EP in Colombia remains challenging. Yet, despite limited acceptance of ex-rebels by Colombian society, ex-insurgent Guillermo Torres successfully ran for office in the municipality of Turbaco. We observe how he negotiated his identity as former rebel, revolutionary musician, and son-of-the-soil, to make himself a credible candidate, and to implement a progressive agenda. We challenge mainstream perspecti…
Localized land tenure registration in Burundi and eastern DR Congo: Contributing to sustainable peace
The last two decades, a variety of –mostly donor-led– initiatives have aimed at ‘localizing’ land tenure registration, specifically in conflict-affected settings, making the registration of land rights more accessible to rural smallholders. In such settings, land registration is seen not just as instrumental to tenure security and economic development; but also to prevent land-related violence and promote sustainable peace. However, to reach such…
Covid-19 in Sub-Saharan Africa: Impacts on land, governance, and livelihoods
This paper focuses on the impacts of COVID-19 on livelihoods, land access and governance in rural and peri-urban selected areas of Sub-Saharan Africa. Crises are usually expected to be worse for citizens in developing countries since most of their economic activities are in the informal sector, and access to the social protection programs is often limited and exclusionary. Those vulnerable and marginalized are often those who are hit the hardest …
Political science (22 works) · Law (21 works) · Law (16 works) · Sociology (15 works) · Politics (14 works) · Economics (11 works) · Geography (11 works) · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (10 works) · Political economy (10 works) · Land Rights and Reforms (9 works)