Local Institutions in Globalized Societies (LINGS)

制度如何演变和变化的问题是文化和社会科学的主要理论挑战之一。纳米比亚目前提供了一个非常有趣的机会来分析公共资源管理在实践中的转变。一方面，国家正在部分退出自然资源管理，另一方面，它正在制定新的指导方针，指导社区如何集体管理他们的资源。在第一个资助阶段，我们制定了一个全面的研究设计，以比较地捕捉库内内地区的制度变化。在此基础上，在四个案例研究中收集了广泛的人种学数据。结果在专著中作了详细的分析。此外，我们能够在更大的社区样本（N=61）中测试从我们的民族志工作中得出的一些假设。区域升级技术已被证明是非常有用的，第一批比较结果发表在《世界发展》、《人类生态学》、《人性》、《环境政策与治理》和《当代民族学》上。在即将到来的最后阶段，我们将主要关注历时性视角，并系统地挖掘长期项目的潜力。这将使我们能够展示，观察到的制度动态在我们研究的社区中产生了哪些经济、社会和政治后果。此外，我们将对理论结果进行整合。

The question of how institutions evolve and change is one of the major theoretical challenges in the cultural and social sciences. Namibia currently offers a very interesting opportunity to analyze the transformation of communal resource management in practice. While, on the one hand, the state is partly withdrawing from natural resource management, on the other hand, it is setting new guidelines as to how communities should manage their resources collectively. In the first funding phase, we developed a comprehensive research design to capture institutional change in the Kunene Region comparatively. Building on that, extensive ethnographic data were collected in four case studies. The results were analyzed in detail in monographs. In addition, we were able to test a number of hypotheses derived from our ethnographic work in a larger sample of communities (N=61). The regional upscaling technique has proven to be very useful and first comparative results were published in World Development, Human Ecology, Human Nature, Environmental Policy and Governance and the Zeitschrift für Ethnologie. In the forthcoming final phase, we will focus primarily on the diachronic perspective and systematically exploit the potential of a long-term project. This will allow us to show, which economic, social and political consequences the observed institutional dynamics have in the communities we study. In addition, we will work on the integration of the theoretical results.