THE UNSEEN CONSEQUENCES OF GREEN GROWTH A Study on Indigenous Dispossession in the Greater Serengeti-Mara Ecosystem
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2025-06-19
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Massive protests by Maasai locals have arisen in both the Kenyan and Tanzanian parts of the
Greater Serengeti-Mara ecosystem regarding land repurposing by the national governments.
Although the conflict over land has been going on for over six decades, the Maasai have now
started more formally resisting these land grabs by uniting and suing in court.
In light of this conflict, this paper aims to understand why there has been a ongoing contestation
in the Greater Serengeti Mara Area, between local Maasai tribal communities and the Kenyan
and Tanzanian governments, relating to the use of land, for over 60 years, and what has caused
the conflict to heightened in the past decades, causing increasing resistance from local
communities, by answering the following research question: What explains the continued
contestation of local Maasai communities regarding the use of land in the Greater Serengeti
Mara Area? And aims to answer it by using the Gramscian hegemony framework together with
David Harvey’s accumulation by dispossession theory.
Through the analysis of the data using document analysis as the main method, this explainingoutcome,
critcal research has identified the constant creation of new regimes of accumulation
by the government as the main cause for the continued contestation of the Maasai people for
land repurposing in the Greater Serengeti Mara Area.
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Faculteit der Managementwetenschappen