Local Institutions in Globalized Societies
The Kunene Region covers an area of 114,293 km² – approximately 13.9% of the total land area of Namibia – and is sparsely popualted. Annual rainfall increases from west to east, from less than 50mm near the coast to up
Read moreA quasi-experimental situation Namibia currently offers a unique opportunity to analyze the dynamic development of institutions in the field of common-pool resource management. On the one hand, the state withdraws from central areas of natural resource management while on the
Read moreA unique research design to study institutional change The LINGS project is characterized by a unique research design. Throughout Kunene, a research team carried out comparative and longitudinal ethnographic field studies. Following a travelling models approach, these ethnographic cases can
Read moreProf. Dr. Michael Schnegg, University of Hamburg Michael.Schnegg@uni-hamburg.de Michael Schnegg is Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Hamburg, Germany and has been conducting research in southern Kunene since 2003. His research aims to understand how people
Read moreLINGS’ core focus is to study the local institutional dynamics and socioeconomic consequences generated through state decentralization reforms targeting rural water-management (mainly boreholes) within the communal farming areas of the Kunene region, north-western Namibia. Starting in the mid- 1990s and
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