Livestock owners, elites and non-elites alike, from different parts of Namibia fence in land that belongs to the indigenous San people who collectively manage their land as a conservancy. Fencing violates the Communal Land Reform Act of 2002. The conservancy started a lawsuit in August 2013 with reference to this Act to remove the fences and end the illegal occupation of land. The High Court ruled in 2016 in favour of the conservancy, but the fences have not been removed and more illegal settlers have settled in the conservancy. We conceptualize and analyse the act of fencing as land grabbing but argue simultaneously that the legal battle of the conservancy is more than a struggle for justice. The case unfolds as an ontological struggle between actors, their institutions and respective policies and discourses, pivoting on conflicting visions of modernities of (rural) development in Tsumkwe West. The wider significance beyond N≠a Jaqna is that the core of struggles about land and rights in situations of land grabbing is whose modernity counts. The court case has also paved the way for conservancies and other resource communities to become involved in dealing with land issues and contesting the multiple meanings of land.

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在纳米比亚 N≠a Jaqna 与栅栏和土地掠夺者战斗

来自纳米比亚不同地区的牲畜所有者、精英和非精英都围在属于土著桑人的土地上，他们集体管理他们的土地作为保护区。围栏违反了 2002 年的《公共土地改革法》。水利部于 2013 年 8 月参照该法案提起诉讼，要求拆除围栏，结束非法占用土地。高等法院于 2016 年作出有利于保护区的裁决，但围栏尚未拆除，更多非法定居者已在保护区定居。我们将围栏行为概念化和分析为土地掠夺，但同时认为保护的法律斗争不仅仅是一场正义斗争。案件展开为行动者、他们的机构以及各自的政策和话语之间的本体论斗争，以对 Tsumkwe 西部（农村）发展的现代性相互冲突的愿景为中心。超越 N≠a Jaqna 的更广泛意义在于，在掠夺土地的情况下，土地和权利斗争的核心在于其现代性。法庭案件也为保护区和其他资源社区参与处理土地问题和质疑土地的多重意义铺平了道路。