Contestation, negotiation, and experimentation: The liminality of land administration platforms in Kenya
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Summary
This summary is machine-generated.Ardhisasa, Kenya's digital land platform, faces challenges in delivering promised improvements. Its development, influenced by various actors, risks marginalizing urban poor by excluding existing informal land practices.
Area Of Science
- Digital Governance
- Land Administration Systems
- Socio-technical Studies
Background
- Ardhisasa is Kenya's digital land information management platform.
- Platformisation of governance involves complex actor dynamics and power negotiations.
- Existing informal land practices serve vulnerable urban populations.
Purpose Of The Study
- To analyze infrastructural interventions in Ardhisasa's development.
- To understand actor agency in shaping Kenya's digital land state.
- To examine the platform's impact on marginalized groups and land administration.
Main Methods
- Analysis of platformisation through theories of liminality.
- Qualitative research including interviews with state and non-state actors.
- Review of secondary literature and Kenya's land administration system.
Main Results
- Ardhisasa's development is a site of contestation and negotiation.
- Private actors and civil society organizations exert agency in platform evolution.
- The platform risks entrenching marginalization by excluding informal land practices.
Conclusions
- Ardhisasa, like many large projects, may not fulfill its improvement promises.
- Exclusion of informal land practices disproportionately affects the urban poor.
- The platform's ongoing development creates a 'spatialisation of liminality'.
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