095: Agrarian reforms and the property rights gap with Mike Albertus
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Is There a Difference Between the Scales of Property Rights?
Oyemy: It's important not to think about any one of these scales as being inherently more secure than the other ones. You're making this argument about the relationship between formalization and power, that formalization can help empower local peasants. That seems both plausible, but also not necessarily true to me in te kind of, it d be interesting if your reading of scott is also different here, right? Like, formalization from the state can be its own way of the state exerting power. And i think one of the ways in which rural peasants and other folks can resist state power is by resisting the formalization of their otherwise informal traditions and customs,.
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