Collaborative autoethnography and reclaiming an African episteme: investigating “customary” ownership of natural resources

Abonga, Francis, Atingo, Jacky, Awachango, Jacob, Denis, Akena, Hopwood, Julian, James, Ocitti, Kinyera, Opiyo Dick, Lajul, Susan, Lucky, Auma and Okello, Joseph (2024) Collaborative autoethnography and reclaiming an African episteme: investigating “customary” ownership of natural resources. African Studies Review. ISSN 0002-0206

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Abstract

Collaborative autoethnography can function as a means of reclaiming certain African realities that have been co-opted by colonial epistemes and language. This can be significant in very concrete ways: northern Uganda is suffering a catastrophic loss of tree cover, much of which is taking place on the collective family landholdings that academia and the development sector have categorized as “customary land.” A collaboration by ten members of such landholding families, known as the Acholi Land Lab, explores what “customary ownership” means to them and their relatives, with a view to understanding what may be involved in promoting sustainable domestic use of natural resources, including trees.

Item Type:	Article
Official URL:	https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/african-st...
Additional Information:	© 2024 The Author(s)
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Subjects:	G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GN Anthropology G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GE Environmental Sciences
Date Deposited:	20 Feb 2024 00:11
Last Modified:	08 May 2024 21:28
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/122072

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