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Rangeland, forests and riverine landscapes of pastoral communities
in Eastern Africa are increasingly under threat. Abetted by states
who think that outsiders can better use the lands than the people
who have lived there for centuries, outside commercial interests
have displaced indigenous dwellers from pastoral territories. This
volume presents case studies from Eastern Africa, based on
long-term field research, that vividly illustrate the struggles and
strategies of those who face dispossession and also discredit
ideological false modernist tropes like ‘backwardness’ and
‘primitiveness’.
At a time when policies are increasingly against it, international
migration has become the subject of great public and academic
attention. This book departs from the dominant approach of studying
international migration at macro level, and from the perspective of
destination countries. The contributors here seek to do more than
'scratch the surface' of the migration process, by foregrounding
the voices and views of Ethiopian youth--potential migrants and
returnees--and of their sending communities. The volume focuses on
the perspective and agency of these young people, both potential
migrants and returnees, to better understand migration
decision-making, experiences and outcomes. It brings together
rarely documented cases of young men and women from several
communities across Ethiopia, migrating to the Gulf and South
Africa. Explaining the agency of local actors--prospective
migrants, brokers and sending families--Youth on the Move
illuminates the pervasive, persistent failure of state attempts to
regulate migration. Moreover, it examines the financing of
migration and the sharing of remittances, within a culturally
situated moral economy. While accounts centred on economics and
political violence are important, the contributors demonstrate
compellingly that these factors alone cannot provide a full
understanding of migration's complexity, nor of its social
realities.
Rangeland, forests and riverine landscapes of pastoral communities
in Eastern Africa are increasingly under threat. Abetted by states
who think that outsiders can better use the lands than the people
who have lived there for centuries, outside commercial interests
have displaced indigenous dwellers from pastoral territories. This
volume presents case studies from Eastern Africa, based on
long-term field research, that vividly illustrate the struggles and
strategies of those who face dispossession and also discredit
ideological false modernist tropes like 'backwardness' and
'primitiveness'.
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.
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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