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Environmental Politics and Liberation in Contemporary Africa (Hardcover, 1999 ed.)
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Environmental Politics and Liberation in Contemporary Africa (Hardcover, 1999 ed.)
Series: Environment & Policy, 18
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Nowadays, the environment looms large in the analysis of conflict
in developing societies, and the precise role it plays is the
subject of an ongoing debate. The de bate has moved on from the
earlier, but still popular, notions of 'power struggles', 'class
struggles' and 'ethnic conflicts', to a perception of conflict as
the product of intense group competition for resources. Where the
state controls the distribu tion of resources, itself inevitably
becomes party to conflicts whose bone of con tention is access to
state power as the most efficient means of gaining access to
resources. The resources in question are social (health, education,
transportation, communication, recreation, etc. ) and material
(land, water, housing, jobs, con tracts, licenses, permits, etc. ).
In parts of the world, and especially in Africa, di minishing
resources and authoritarian state rule exacerbate group competition
leading to political confrontation. This is the line I have
followed in analysing conflict in the Hom of Africa (Markakis,
1987, 1998). Mohamed Salih's first contribution in this volume is
to move the debate a step beyond this line, which can be criticized
as unduly materialist. He does it by bringing culture into the
realm of resources, not only as a resource in itself, but also as
the agency that assigns natural resources their value. Culture thus
becomes a contextual element in conflict over resources whose value
is culturally deter mined."
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