Communities comply minimally with donor rules while keeping their own governance practices operative

Evidence

Settlers selectively complied with requirements that provided resource access (applications, bank accounts, fund accounting) but rendered SJA governance mechanisms functionally inactive in their actual project management. As such, many of the SJA project rules existed alongside conventional practice, serving the needs of the World Bank and the Secretariat of Agrarian Development, but were perceived as bureaucratic obstacles by the community even as they adhered to them. As de Koning notes, alteration “does not imply complete dismissal of bureaucratic institutions,” but rather treating them “as not applicable to the local situation” (de Koning, 2011, p. 33). This strategic navigation allowed communities to access resources through minimal compliance while preserving their existing governance practices. — Jessica Carrick-Hagenbarth, Institutional Bricolage and Commoning…, 113

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: A nuanced account of how compliance and resistance coexist — a community can fully adhere to external bureaucracy while functionally negating its governance intent. Resists the simple binary of submission vs. defiance.
• XREF: Connects to the sacrifice paper’s theme of formal ritual structures coexisting with pragmatics beneath; also to institutional theories of ‘decoupling’ in sociology. — connects to: Community-driven development institutions do not spill over into everyday community governance — Jessica Carrick-Hagenbarth, Institutional Bricolage and Commoning…, 145; Rules alone stay empty unless institutions activate them — Lawrence M. Friedman and Grant M. Hayden, American Law: An Introduction, 53
• corroborated: 3 independent passages support this claim — Jessica Carrick-Hagenbarth, Institutional Bricolage and Commoning…, 113

Related

• Communities adapt externally imposed development projects through bricolage processes of alteration, aggregation, and articulation. (similarity 0.79)
• Community-driven development institutions do not spill over into everyday community governance (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Community-driven development institutions do not spill over into everyday community governance #corroborates (0.82) — Jessica Carrick-Hagenbarth, Institutional Bricolage and Commoning…, 145