The Co-Production of Livelihoods and Land Use Change: Case Studies From South Africa and Ghana
The Co-Production of Livelihoods and Land Use Change: Case Studies From South Africa and Ghana
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DOI：
10.1016/j.geoforum.2005.09.007
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发表时间：
2006-09
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影响因子：
3.5
通讯作者：
B. McCusker;Edward R. Carr
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作者：
B. McCusker;Edward R. Carr
土地利用变化和生计系统往往是分开分析的，或者是一个“驱动”另一个。这种“司机-反馈”关系得到了社交过程方法的支持，这些方法往往过于静态。演员们面临着一大堆选择，他们在创造变革之路的过程中必须协商这些选择。这些选择总是与权力关系和作为这些关系的条件和结果的知识联系在一起。我们认为，土地使用和生计是个人和群体协商塑造其生活的日常条件的社会过程的不同表现形式。我们提出了一个框架，通过将权力社会关系作为进入这一复杂关系的切入点，扩展了目前对土地利用变化与生计之间关系的理解。我们以南非和加纳的经验例子来支持我们的论点，这些例子将权力/知识关系置于这两个研究领域的社会变革的背景下。
Land use change and livelihood systems are often analyzed separately or with one “driving” the other. This “driver-feedback” relationship has been buttressed by approaches to social process that are often far too static. Actors are confronted with a bundle of choices that they must negotiate as they create pathways of change. These choices are always bound up in relations of power and the knowledges that are the conditions for and results of these relations. We suggest that land uses and livelihood are different manifestations of the social processes by which individuals and groups negotiate the everyday conditions that shape their lives. We propose a framework that extends current understandings of the relationship between land use change and livelihoods by treating social relations of power as the entry point into this complex relationship. We underpin our arguments with empirical examples from South Africa and Ghana that locate power/knowledge relations in the context of social change in both study areas.