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First published in 1997, this volume asks whether Africa's future
is necessarily rooted in peasant agriculture. The title of this
book, Farewell to Farms, is deliberately intended to challenge the
widely held view that Africa is the world's reserve for peasant
farming. African rural populations are themselves moving away from
a reliance on agriculture. 'De-agrarianisation' takes the form of
urban migration as well as the expansion of non-agricultural
activities in rural areas providing new income sources, occupations
and social identities for rural dwellers. Using recent
continent-wide case study evidence, the authors assess the impact
of de-agrarianisation on household welfare, business performance
and national development. Their findings, which reveal new economic
trajectories and social patterns emerging from a period of
accelerated change, call into question assumptions about Africa's
future place in the world division of labour.
First published in 1997, this volume asks whether Africa's future
is necessarily rooted in peasant agriculture. The title of this
book, Farewell to Farms, is deliberately intended to challenge the
widely held view that Africa is the world's reserve for peasant
farming. African rural populations are themselves moving away from
a reliance on agriculture. 'De-agrarianisation' takes the form of
urban migration as well as the expansion of non-agricultural
activities in rural areas providing new income sources, occupations
and social identities for rural dwellers. Using recent
continent-wide case study evidence, the authors assess the impact
of de-agrarianisation on household welfare, business performance
and national development. Their findings, which reveal new economic
trajectories and social patterns emerging from a period of
accelerated change, call into question assumptions about Africa's
future place in the world division of labour.
After more than three decades of economic malaise, many African
countries are experiencing an upsurge in their economic fortunes
linked to the booming international market for minerals. Spurred by
the shrinking viability of peasant agriculture, rural dwellers have
been engaged in a massive search for alternative livelihoods, one
of the most lucrative being artisanal mining. While an expanding
literature has documented the economic expansion of artisanal
mining, this book is the first to probe its societal impact,
demonstrating that artisanal mining has the potential to be far
more democratic and emancipating than preceding modes. Delineating
the paradoxes of artisanal miners working alongside the expansion
of large-scale mining investment in Africa, Mining and Social
Transformation in Africa concentrates on the Tanzanian experience.
Written by authors with fresh research insights, focus is placed on
how artisanal mining is configured in relation to local, regional
and national mining investments and social class differentiation.
The work lives and associated lifestyles of miners and residents of
mining settlements are brought to the fore, asking where this
historical interlude is taking them and their communities in the
future. The question of value transfers out of the artisanal mining
sector, value capture by elites and changing configurations of
gender, age and class differentiation, all arise.
This handbook compiles the most up-to-date research on
transnational families. It employs a dialogue between classical
approaches and cutting-edge directions in transnational family
research to identify continuities and changes in terms of
socioeconomic disparities and actors, and to analyze coexistence.
Further, the volume adopts a twofold global and international
comparative perspective. On the one hand, it focuses on different
migratory flows around the world and describes their entangled
logics; on the other, it is written by an international group of
contributors, with a diverse range of professional backgrounds.
Their contributions are based on sound empirical research, and
explore geographical regions around the world. The handbook
presents different thematic perspectives on transnational families,
including an analytical focus on gender, global sociodemographic
inequalities, power asymmetries, and border- and mobility regimes,
as well as the organization of transnational care, transnational
fatherhood, ageing, family reunions and return. It also includes a
variety of methodological approaches to transnational family
research, ranging from ethnography, biographical research, and
life-course methods, to multi-sited approaches and quantitative
surveys. Investigating an emergent debate, it sheds new light on
migratory fluxes, their common and specific determinants, the types
of actors involved, and ways to empirically and methodologically
approach them. This is a must-read reference for social scientists
interested in family research, migration, and gender studies.
Chapter 7 is available open access under a Creative Commons
Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.
Contrary to the negative assessments of the social order that have
become prevalent in the media since 9/11, this wide-ranging
collection of essays, mostly by social anthropologists, focuses
instead on the enormous social creativity being invested as
collective identities are reconfigured. Using fieldwork findings
drawn from Africa, Asia, and Europe, special emphasis is placed on
the reformulation of ethnic and gender relationships and identities
in the cultural, social, political, and religious realms of public
life. Under what circumstances does trust arise, paving the way for
friendship, collegiality, knowledge creation, national unity, or
emergence of leadership? How is social life constructed as a
collective endeavour? Does the means towards sociability become its
end? And what can be said about the agency and collegiality of
women? The inspiration for examining these conundrums is the work
and persona of Shirley Ardener, to whom the volume is dedicated.
Contributors: Jonathan Benthall, Deborah Fahy Bryceson, Gina Buijs,
Sandra Burman, Hilary Callan, Gaynor Cohen, Janette Davies, Tamara
Dragadze, Ronnie Frankenberg, Peter Geschiere, Kirsten Hastrup,
Paula Heinonen, Maria Jaschok, Grazyna Kubica, Rhian Loudon, Sharon
Macdonald, Zdzislaw Mach, Fiona Moore, Judith Okely, Lidia D.
Sciama, Shui Jingjun, Cecillie Swaisland, Jacqueline Waldren,
Jonathan Webber.
After more than three decades of economic malaise, many African
countries are experiencing an upsurge in their economic fortunes
linked to the booming international market for minerals. Spurred by
the shrinking viability of peasant agriculture, rural dwellers have
been engaged in a massive search for alternative livelihoods, one
of the most lucrative being artisanal mining. While a burgeoning
literature is acknowledging the spread of artisanal mining, this
book is the first to probe its societal impact and potential for
extending economic opportunity and participatory forms of
democracy. Delineating the paradoxes of artisanal miners working
alongside the expansion of large-scale mining investment in Africa,
Mining and Social Transformation in Africa concentrates on the
Tanzanian experience. Written by authors with fresh research
insights, focus is placed on how artisanal mining is configured in
relation to local, regional and national mining investments and
social class differentiation. The work lives and associated
lifestyles of miners and residents of mining settlements are
brought to the fore, asking where this historical interlude is
taking them and their communities in the future. The question of
value transfers out of the artisanal mining sector, value capture
by elites and changing configurations of gender, age and class
differentiation, all arise.
Examines the impact of liberalizing trade in staple food
commodities. The author shows the way grain traders and households
in five Tanzanian towns were affected by the Tanzanian government's
decision to opt for liberalization in the trade of two staple food
crops: rice and maize.
Contrary to the negative assessments of the social order that have
become prevalent in the media since 9/11, this wide-ranging
collection of essays, mostly by social anthropologists, focuses
instead on the enormous social creativity being invested as
collective identities are reconfigured. Using fieldwork findings
drawn from Africa, Asia, and Europe, special emphasis is placed on
the reformulation of ethnic and gender relationships and identities
in the cultural, social, political, and religious realms of public
life. Under what circumstances does trust arise, paving the way for
friendship, collegiality, knowledge creation, national unity, or
emergence of leadership? How is social life constructed as a
collective endeavour? Does the means towards sociability become its
end? And what can be said about the agency and collegiality of
women? The inspiration for examining these conundrums is the work
and persona of Shirley Ardener, to whom the volume is dedicated.
Contributors: Jonathan Benthall, Deborah Fahy Bryceson, Gina Buijs,
Sandra Burman, Hilary Callan, Gaynor Cohen, Janette Davies, Tamara
Dragadze, Ronnie Frankenberg, Peter Geschiere, Kirsten Hastrup,
Paula Heinonen, Maria Jaschok, Grazyna Kubica, Rhian Loudon, Sharon
Macdonald, Zdzislaw Mach, Fiona Moore, Judith Okely, Lidia D.
Sciama, Shui Jingjun, Cecillie Swaisland, Jacqueline Waldren,
Jonathan Webber.
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