Uzbekistan – A Region of World Society? Variants of Differentiation in Agricultural Resources Governance
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Anna-Katharina Hornidge
Ms. Hornidge is a Southeast Asianist and Sociologist by training from the Universities of Bonn, Berlin and Singapore. She wrote her PhD in Berlin and Singapore on the Construction of Knowledge Societies, her Habilitation at the University of Bonn on global discourses of knowledge and their local consequences in Southeast and Central Asia. Her main research regions include Southeast and Central Asia, East and West Africa.
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Kristof Van Assche
Kristof Van Assche is interested in evolution and innovation in governance, with focus areas in spatial planning and design, development and environmental policy. Kristof has worked in various countries, often combining fieldwork with theoretical reflection: systems theories, interpretive policy analysis, institutional economics, post- structuralism and others. With colleagues, he has developed Evolutionary Governance Theory (EGT), which aims to discern realistic modes of transition and reform, between social engineering and laissez faire. Full Professor (since 2016) in Planning, governance & development at the University of Alberta, in the department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences. Also affiliated with Bonn University, Center for Development Research (ZEF) as Senior Fellow and with Memorial University, Newfoundland, Harris Centre for Regional Policy, as Research Fellow.
Anastasiya Shtaltovna is a researcher at Centre for International Studies (CÉRIUM), University of Montreal Canada. She holds a PhD in Rural Sociology from the University of Bonn, Germany. Her work and research interests lie in the fields of sustainable development, food security, poverty reduction, agricultural advisory services, knowledge and innovation for development in transition countries. Ms. Shtaltovna has an extensive expertise in interdisciplinary and ethnographic research, participatory monitoring and evaluation in Europe, Central Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa.
Abstract
This article studies the layered coexistence and mutual shaping of three forms of differentiation (functional, segmentary, hierarchical) in rural Uzbekistan, a region of world society that, since 1991, is undergoing tremendous processes of socio-economic transformation and change. More precisely, we analyse the evolving governance of land, water and agricultural support services (knowledge & advice) in the Uzbek province of Khorezm, where currently three types of farms utilise various social practices to navigate a complex and partly opaque environment marked by various forms of differentiation, each posing different opportunities, threats and coordination mechanisms (institutions). In doing so, the article builds on Rudolf Stichweh’s considerations of world society’s structural patterns, its ‘Eigenstructures’ as well as Niklas Luhmann’s conceptualisation of world society’s autopoietically closed function systems. Based on ethnographic research, we argue that the mobilisation of patron-client relationships, a complex system of coercive reciprocity and a trilogy of formal, strategic and discursive practices are widely employed to cope with the coexistence of an undermined layer of functional differentiation and reaffirmed/reinvented segmentary and hierarchical identities. We argue that the skilful navigation by local actors between these different differentiation forms and their demands, embodies a short-term adaptation strategy that is likely to hamper a (re-)crystallisation of autonomous functional domains. Hampering functional differentiation jeopardises long-term change adaptation.
About the authors
Ms. Hornidge is a Southeast Asianist and Sociologist by training from the Universities of Bonn, Berlin and Singapore. She wrote her PhD in Berlin and Singapore on the Construction of Knowledge Societies, her Habilitation at the University of Bonn on global discourses of knowledge and their local consequences in Southeast and Central Asia. Her main research regions include Southeast and Central Asia, East and West Africa.
Kristof Van Assche is interested in evolution and innovation in governance, with focus areas in spatial planning and design, development and environmental policy. Kristof has worked in various countries, often combining fieldwork with theoretical reflection: systems theories, interpretive policy analysis, institutional economics, post- structuralism and others. With colleagues, he has developed Evolutionary Governance Theory (EGT), which aims to discern realistic modes of transition and reform, between social engineering and laissez faire. Full Professor (since 2016) in Planning, governance & development at the University of Alberta, in the department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences. Also affiliated with Bonn University, Center for Development Research (ZEF) as Senior Fellow and with Memorial University, Newfoundland, Harris Centre for Regional Policy, as Research Fellow.
Anastasiya Shtaltovna is a researcher at Centre for International Studies (CÉRIUM), University of Montreal Canada. She holds a PhD in Rural Sociology from the University of Bonn, Germany. Her work and research interests lie in the fields of sustainable development, food security, poverty reduction, agricultural advisory services, knowledge and innovation for development in transition countries. Ms. Shtaltovna has an extensive expertise in interdisciplinary and ethnographic research, participatory monitoring and evaluation in Europe, Central Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa.
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Titelseiten
- Editorial
- Introduction: How to Conceive Global Function Systems?
- Varieties and Variations of Functional Differentiation
- Functions of Clientelism in Modern Politics
- The Limits of Functional Differentiation under Populist Rule in Latin America
- “Modern Authoritarians” Coping with the Challenge of Modern Society
- The Logic of the Soviet Organisational Society
- Uzbekistan – A Region of World Society? Variants of Differentiation in Agricultural Resources Governance
- Regional Variations of and Regional Variations within Functional Differentiation – The Middle East and World Society
- Causality in the South
- Literatization vs. Civilization: A Preliminary Comparison of the Development of Sport in China and the West with a Focus on Violence
- The Effects of Centre/Periphery-Differentiation and the Semantics of Civilisation, With an Example of Devolutional changes in Love Semantics in Late 19th and Early 20th Century Japan
- Distinguishing “Religion”. Variants of Differentiation and the Emergence of “Religion” as a Global Category in Modern Asia
Artikel in diesem Heft
- Titelseiten
- Editorial
- Introduction: How to Conceive Global Function Systems?
- Varieties and Variations of Functional Differentiation
- Functions of Clientelism in Modern Politics
- The Limits of Functional Differentiation under Populist Rule in Latin America
- “Modern Authoritarians” Coping with the Challenge of Modern Society
- The Logic of the Soviet Organisational Society
- Uzbekistan – A Region of World Society? Variants of Differentiation in Agricultural Resources Governance
- Regional Variations of and Regional Variations within Functional Differentiation – The Middle East and World Society
- Causality in the South
- Literatization vs. Civilization: A Preliminary Comparison of the Development of Sport in China and the West with a Focus on Violence
- The Effects of Centre/Periphery-Differentiation and the Semantics of Civilisation, With an Example of Devolutional changes in Love Semantics in Late 19th and Early 20th Century Japan
- Distinguishing “Religion”. Variants of Differentiation and the Emergence of “Religion” as a Global Category in Modern Asia
