Local Institutions in Globalized Societies
Summary Project research in northwestern Namibia reveals that global models of resource governance (community, participation, sustainability, development) found their way into the pastoral settlements. However, the use and distribution of water does not follow explicit institutional blueprints. National water policies
Read moreThe results of the project were published in two monographs and a large number of peer-reviewed articles. 2021 Bollig, M. 2021. Materiality, Inequality, and Future-making as Focal Points of Future Engagement of Economic Anthropology with Climate Change. Economic Anthropology 8
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 moreThe study on travelling models of water governance is based on multi-sited fieldwork, including global events on water. However, most of the research took place in Namibia. Fieldwork involved travelling with the ‘traveling ideas‘ – depending on the availability of
Read moreThe communal settlements in southern Kunene, located near Fransfontein, are inhabited by various ethnic groups, mostly by Damara, Nama and Ovaherero. Under South African rule, the area was part of the Damaraland homeland. In contrast to the other research regions
Read moreThe area of Otwani, situated halfway between Sesfontein and Opuwo, is mainly populated by the Ovaherero people. During South African rule, this region was part of the Kaokoland homeland. People here mainly make a living through pastoralism, and so seek
Read moreIn the region around Okangwati, pastoralism is the dominant economic activity. As a part of the former Kaokoland, its integration into the South African system was less extensive than that of Fransfontein. Even now, labour migration plays a secondary role
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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