Communities adapt externally imposed development projects through bricolage processes of alteration, aggregation, and articulation.

Evidence

SJA, as a CDD project, imposed an external set of “bureaucratic institutions” (Cleaver, 2002) on the settlements. Using de Koning’s (2011) framework of institutional bricolage processes: alteration, aggregation, and articulation, this article analyzes how settlers responded. Through alteration, settlers maintained minimal compliance with World Bank requirements while privileging their own governance practices. Through aggregation, they creatively repurposed existing settlement institutions to serve the SJA projects. Through articulation, they resisted imposing sanctions that conflicted with local norms and social cohesion. Settlers thus adapted project implementation to work within their established systems of collective work and governance. — Jessica Carrick-Hagenbarth, Institutional Bricolage and Commoning…, 151

Categorization

• DEFINE: Concise working definition of de Koning’s three bricolage processes and how they operate in practice.
• XREF: Extends James C. Scott’s ‘weapons of the weak’ / everyday resistance scholarship and institutional bricolage work of Cleaver. — connects to: Institutional bricolage operates through alteration, aggregation, and articulation. — Jessica Carrick-Hagenbarth, Institutional Bricolage and Commoning…, 4; Bricolage thrives where external frameworks fail to align with local realities. — Jessica Carrick-Hagenbarth, Institutional Bricolage and Commoning…, 22
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Jessica Carrick-Hagenbarth, Institutional Bricolage and Commoning…, 151

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• Institutional bricolage operates through alteration, aggregation, and articulation. (similarity 0.91)
• Bricolage thrives where external frameworks fail to align with local realities. (similarity 0.84)
• Settlements grafted project management onto existing governance rather than forming new systems (similarity 0.83)
• Communities comply minimally with donor rules while keeping their own governance practices operative (similarity 0.79)
• Jessica Carrick-Hagenbarth — Institutional Bricolage and Commoning in Community-Driven Development Projects in Brazilian Agrarian Settlements (similarity 0.79)
• JESSICA CARRICK-HAGENBARTH — Institutional Bricolage and Commoning in Community- Driven Development Projects in Brazilian Agrarian Settlements (similarity 0.79)
• External development requirements parallel and are met by preexisting local governance institutions (similarity 0.78)