@article{fdi:010090093,
  title = {{T}he practical norms of land governance in {S}enegalese communes : institutional incompleteness, politicisation, semi-formality and bricolage},
  author = {{L}avigne {D}elville, {P}hilippe and {D}iongue, {M}. and {D}iouf, {I}. {F}.},
  editor = {},
  language = {{ENG}},
  abstract = {{T}he decentralisation of land administration is often presented as a condition for 'good land governance'. {I}n {S}enegal, the 1964 law on the national domain places rural land within the national domain, under the responsibility of the communes. {T}hey can allocate use rights to residents, provided that they personally cultivate the plot. {A}ll land transactions are prohibited. {T}hese principles, which stem from the '{A}frican socialism' of independence, are in conflict with the political stakes of land tenure, the development of commercial transactions and agribusiness, and intense land speculation, particularly on the fringes of the {D}akar metropolis. {B}ased on in-depth surveys conducted in six communes on the outskirts of {D}akar (the capital) and {S}aint-{L}ouis, this article reveals the administrative practices and routines, often far removed from the rule, that constitute communal land governance in action. {F}avoured by lasting legal loopholes, a set of semi-legal or even illegal practices have become widespread, through successive bricolage, on the part of elected officials and communal administrations as well as by the land administration. {T}o varying degrees depending on the socio-economic and political contexts of the communes, they allow access to land for actors from outside the commune, and the legalisation of illegal sales, while at the same time favouring the clientelist consolidation of the power of elected officials and their enrichment. {T}his politicised governance of land is tolerated by the central government, which also uses the law to serve its political allies and promote its own projects.},
  keywords = {{L}ocal government ; {G}overnance ; {L}and market ; {H}ousing subdivision ; {P}oliticisation ; {SENEGAL}},
  booktitle = {},
  journal = {{L}and {U}se {P}olicy},
  volume = {132},
  numero = {},
  pages = {106828 [11 ]},
  ISSN = {0264-8377},
  year = {2023},
  DOI = {10.1016/j.landusepol.2023.106828},
  URL = {https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:010090093},
}