Bureaucratizing the indigenous: The San peoples, Botswana, and the international community
This article examines the relationship between the San people and the post-colonial Botswana state as manifest in bureaucratic practices. These practices illustrate the dynamic between the state’s control and care toward its most discriminated groups and indigenous resistance, incorporation, and coo...
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Dipartimento Culture e Società - Università di Palermo
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| description | This article examines the relationship between the San people and the post-colonial Botswana state as manifest in bureaucratic practices. These practices illustrate the dynamic between the state’s control and care toward its most discriminated groups and indigenous resistance, incorporation, and cooptation. It considers how Botswana, through the introduction of development policies and laws to regulate hunting, has encapsulated the San into state institutions and practices; it also illustrates, though the example of San activism, how indigenous peoples try to appropriate state institutions and international development models to formalize their resistance through non-governmental organizations. Bureaucratic processes have, on one hand, been experienced by the San as part of the problem of state-sponsored assimilation and control, while, on the other hand, they have been also utilized as part of the solution for seeking basic rights and recognition. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-d31e5f5b5f754dd897fe9a1fb8c6abec2025-01-30T14:21:20ZitaDipartimento Culture e Società - Università di PalermoArchivio Antropologico Mediterraneo2038-32152023-12-01262510.4000/aam.7563Bureaucratizing the indigenous: The San peoples, Botswana, and the international communityMaria SapignoliThis article examines the relationship between the San people and the post-colonial Botswana state as manifest in bureaucratic practices. These practices illustrate the dynamic between the state’s control and care toward its most discriminated groups and indigenous resistance, incorporation, and cooptation. It considers how Botswana, through the introduction of development policies and laws to regulate hunting, has encapsulated the San into state institutions and practices; it also illustrates, though the example of San activism, how indigenous peoples try to appropriate state institutions and international development models to formalize their resistance through non-governmental organizations. Bureaucratic processes have, on one hand, been experienced by the San as part of the problem of state-sponsored assimilation and control, while, on the other hand, they have been also utilized as part of the solution for seeking basic rights and recognition.https://journals.openedition.org/aam/7563SanBotswanabureaucracyNGOsState |
| spellingShingle | Maria Sapignoli Bureaucratizing the indigenous: The San peoples, Botswana, and the international community Archivio Antropologico Mediterraneo San Botswana bureaucracy NGOs State |
| title | Bureaucratizing the indigenous: The San peoples, Botswana, and the international community |
| title_full | Bureaucratizing the indigenous: The San peoples, Botswana, and the international community |
| title_fullStr | Bureaucratizing the indigenous: The San peoples, Botswana, and the international community |
| title_full_unstemmed | Bureaucratizing the indigenous: The San peoples, Botswana, and the international community |
| title_short | Bureaucratizing the indigenous: The San peoples, Botswana, and the international community |
| title_sort | bureaucratizing the indigenous the san peoples botswana and the international community |
| topic | San Botswana bureaucracy NGOs State |
| url | https://journals.openedition.org/aam/7563 |
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