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African Issues Ser.: Land, Investment and Politics : Reconfiguring Eastern Africa's Pastoral Drylands by Ian Scoones (2020, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherBoydell & Brewer, The Limited
ISBN-101847012523
ISBN-139781847012524
eBay Product ID (ePID)2309573537
Product Key Features
Number of Pages224 Pages
Publication NameLand, Investment and Politics : Reconfiguring Eastern Africa's Pastoral Drylands
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2020
SubjectPublic Policy / Social Policy, Anthropology / General, Development / Sustainable Development
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaPolitical Science, Social Science, Business & Economics
AuthorIan Scoones
SeriesAfrican Issues Ser.
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.8 in
Item Weight15.6 Oz
Item Length8.6 in
Item Width5.7 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
Dewey Edition23
Series Volume Number40
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal338.9676
Table Of ContentIntroduction: The Politics of Land, Resources & Investment in Eastern Africa's Pastoral Drylands - Jeremy Lind Introduction: The Politics of Land, Resources & Investment in Eastern Africa's Pastoral Drylands - Doris Okenwa Introduction: The Politics of Land, Resources & Investment in Eastern Africa's Pastoral Drylands - Ian Scoones Local Transformations of LAPSSET: Evidence from Lamu, Kenya - Ngala Chome Town Making at the Gateway to Kenya's "New Frontier" - Hannah Elliott Contentious Benefits & Subversive Oil Politics in Kenya - Doris Okenwa Meanings of Place & Struggles for Inclusion in the Lake Turkana Wind Power Project - James Drew Conflict & Resistance around a Rice Development Scheme in the SAGCOT Area of Tanzania - Adriana Blache Hosting Refugees as an Investment in Development: Grand Designs versus Local Expectations in Turkana County, Kenya - Cory Rodgers Negotiating Access to Land & Resources at the Geothermal Frontier in Baringo, Kenya - Clemens Greiner The Berbera Corridor Development & Somaliland's Political Economy - Ahmed M. Musa State-building, Market Integration & Local Responses in South Omo, Ethiopia - Fana Gebresenbet The Impacts of Delay: Exploring a Failed Large-scale Agro-investment in Tanzania - Linda Engström Twilight Institutions: Land-buying Companies & their Long-term Implications in Laikipia, Kenya - Marie Ladekjær Gravesen Farmer-led Irrigation Investments: How Local Innovators are Transforming Failed Irrigation Schemes - Gregory Akall Shifting Regimes of Violence within Ethiopia's Awash Valley Investment Frontier - Simone Rettberg
SynopsisExamines 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., 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.
LC Classification NumberHC860.L36 2020
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