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Land, Investment & Politics - Reconfiguring Eastern Africa's Pastoral Drylands (Paperback) Loot Price: R671
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Land, Investment & Politics - Reconfiguring Eastern Africa's Pastoral Drylands (Paperback): Jeremy Lind, Doris Okenwa, Ian...

Land, Investment & Politics - Reconfiguring Eastern Africa's Pastoral Drylands (Paperback)

Jeremy Lind, Doris Okenwa, Ian Scoones; Contributions by Adriana Blache, Ahmed M. Musa, Clemens Greiner, Cory Rodgers, Doris Okenwa, Fana Gebresenbet, Gregory Akall

Series: African Issues

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Examines the new challenges facing Africa's pastoral drylands from large-scale investments and how this might affect the economic and political landscape for the regions affected and their peoples. More than ever before, the gaze of global investment has been directed to the drylands of Africa, but what does this mean for these regions' pastoralists and other livestock-keepers and their livelihoods? Will those who have occupied drylands over generations benefit from the developments, as claimed, or is this a new type of territorialisation, exacerbating social inequality? This book's detailed local studies of investments at various stages of development - from Kenya, Tanzania, Somaliland, Ethiopia - explore, for the first time, how large land, resource and infrastructure projects shape local politics and livelihoods. Land and resources use, based on ancestral precedenceand communal practices, and embedded regional systems of trade, are unique to these areas, yet these lands are now seen as the new frontier for development of national wealth. By examining the ways in which large-scale investmentsenmesh with local political and social relations, the chapters show how even the most elaborate plans of financiers, contractors and national governments come unstuck and are re-made in the guise of not only states' grand modernist visions, but also those of herders and small-town entrepreneurs in the pastoral drylands. The contributors also demonstrate how and why large-scale investments have advanced in a more piecemeal way as the challenges of implementation have mounted. JEREMY LIND is Research Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), University of Sussex. DORIS OKENWA holds a PhD in Anthropology from the London School of Economics. IAN SCOONES is a Professorial Fellow at the IDS, University of Sussex and co-director of the ESRC STEPS Centre.

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Imprint: James Currey
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Series: African Issues
Release date: May 2020
First published: 2020
Editors: Jeremy Lind • Doris Okenwa • Ian Scoones
Contributors: Adriana Blache • Ahmed M. Musa • Clemens Greiner • Cory Rodgers • Doris Okenwa • Fana Gebresenbet • Gregory Akall
Dimensions: 216 x 140 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback - Trade
Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 978-1-84701-249-4
Categories: Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Development studies
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > Social & cultural anthropology > General
Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political control & freedoms > Human rights > Land rights
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LSN: 1-84701-249-3
Barcode: 9781847012494

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