An inherited animus to communal land: the mechanisms of coloniality in land reform agendas in Acholiland, Northern Uganda
An inherited animus to communal land: the mechanisms of coloniality in land reform agendas in Acholiland, Northern Uganda
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对公共土地继承的敌意：乌干达北部阿乔利兰土地改革议程中的殖民机制
作者：
J. Hopwood
乌干达北方阿乔利人获得土地的机会与对殖民前情况的理解仍然有许多共同之处。本文反思了集体土地所有制如何面对一个世纪的敌对政策，促进土地私有财产。殖民性的概念在这种对抗中产生：从虚假实体的角度理解阿乔利社会秩序导致沟通失败;以及土地作为对象的前景化。在编纂阿乔利人“习惯土地”的原则和做法等进程中，殖民机制的持久性显现出来。土地改革的压力是由外部机构、联合国机构、捐助国政府和国际非政府组织推动的，它们声称要寻求保护穷人的利益。然而，这并没有给越来越多的无地人民提供喘息的机会--殖民议程似乎有其自己的势头，不符合任何人的利益。与此同时，对土地持有群体的误解和歪曲加深了其成员的下层无知，使他们在应对太多人在没有足够土地上的挑战时得不到任何支持。
Access to land for the Acholi people of northern Uganda still has much in common with understandings of the pre-colonial situation. This paper reflects on how collective landholding has faced over a century of hostile policy promoting land as private property. The notion of coloniality arises in this confrontation: the failure of communication ensuing from understanding Acholi social ordering in terms of false entities; and the foregrounding of land as object. The durability of colonial mechanisms emerges in processes such as the codification of the principles and practices of Acholi ‘customary land’. Pressure for land reform is driven by external bodies, UN agencies, donor governments and international NGOs, claiming to be seeking to protect the interest of the poor. Yet these offer no respite for the growing numbers of landless people – the colonial agenda appears to have its own momentum, serving no one’s interests. Meanwhile misunderstandings and misrepresentations of land holding groups entrenches the subaltern voicelessness of their members, isolating them from any support in dealing with the challenges of too many people on not enough land.