Landscapes of Conflict
Landscapes of Conflict is one of the Conflict Research Group's five main research programmes.
Programme coordinator: Esther Marijnen & Jeroen Adam
The research cluster landscapes of conflict focuses on the conflict dynamics associated with ever-changing human-nature relations in a wide range of different landscapes. Researchers in the cluster work in a large variety of geographical contexts in Central Africa, Southeast Asia and Western Europe. What connects their respective research projects is a deep interest in the interrelations between society and the environment, analysed from a political angle.
Of particular interest to participants in the cluster are various forms of contestation, and conflictand resolution engendered by processes of dispossession, environmental degradation, and competition over natural resource extraction, amongst other things. The research cluster seeks to analyse both the spatial and the temporal dimensions of environment-related conflicts, paying special attention to how processes of displacement, coloniality and war influence people’s relations to - and interactions with - landscapes. The approach in the cluster is multidisciplinary, drawing on insights from political science, political ecology, rural sociology, cultural ethnography, political geography and anthropology.
People
- Jeroen Adam
- Karen Büscher
- Jeroen Cuvelier
- Mary Ann Manahan
- Esther Marijnen
- Saumya Pandey
- Atique Rahman
- Steven Schoofs
- Tomas Van Acker
- Sara Weschler
- Stéphanie Perazzone
Current Projects
- Igmale’eng’en (Sacred Forests): participatory mapping of the Talaandig people’s ecological knowledge in relation to PES adoption (contact: Mary Ann Manahan)
- The politics of time at the ASM-LSM interface in southeastern D.R. of Congo (contact: Jeroen Cuvelier)
- The politics of hidden urbanisation in D.R. Congo (contact: Karen B¨üscher)
- Changing urban residency (contact: Karen B¨üscher)
- The dynamics of urbanisation, development and ethnic contestation in peri-urban Ethiopia (contact: Ayehu Bacha)
- Conflict Minerals Inc (contact: Christoph Vogel)
- Social differentiation and land reform in the Philippines (contact: Jeroen Adam)
- The urban outcome of conflict mobilities in North and South Kivu, DRC. (contact: Karen Büscher)
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Fruits of peace? The (un)making of a banana plantation in a frontier town (contact: Steven Schoofs)
- Landlessness and resistance in the Phulbari coal project, Bangladesh (contact: Mohammad Atique Rahman)
- Mining-induced displacement and belonging in Lualaba, DRC (contact: Jeroen Cuvelier)
Past Projects
For more info, contact Jeroen Adam, unless stated otherwise:
- Around the Caspian: a doctoral training with focus on the Caspian region (contact: Bruno De Cordier)
- The changing political economy of the Philippines' export banana sector
- The political economy of resource extraction in North East India (contact: Anwesha Dutta)
- The role of rural elites in governing C¨ôte d'Ivoire's ASM sector (contact: Steven Van Bockstael)
- Natural resources, conflict and armed mobilization in eastern DRC (contact: Judith Verweijen)
- The base and premises of administrative behavior on land ownership and use among women in Tanzania: the case of Kilosa district in Morogoro region
- Towards sustainable solutions for conflicts between local social actors and National Parks in Tanzania: Case study of Saadani National Park
- Community participation in slum improvement/upgrading projects in informal settlements in Nairobi
- Resource regulation, inclusion and exclusion in a mobile economy: small-scale mining in Mindanao, Philippines
- Food Security, Conflict and Social Change in Assam, India (contact: Bert Suykens)
- Displacement, Replacement and Livelihood strategies on Ambon-Island, Indonesia
- The socio-economic impact of artisanal and small-scale mining in eastern DRC (contact: Jeroen Cuvelier)