Lind / Okenwa / Scoones Land, Investment & Politics

Reconfiguring Eastern Africa's Pastoral Drylands
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-1-78744-907-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 41, 224 Seiten

Reihe: African Issues

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lind, Jeremy

Okenwa, Doris

Scoones, Ian

Weitere Mitwirkende

Blache, Adriana

Musa, Ahmed M.

Greiner, Clemens

Rodgers, Cory

Okenwa, Doris

Gebresenbet, Fana

Akall, Gregory

Elliott, Hannah

Scoones, Ian

Drew, James

Lind, Jeremy

Engström, Linda

Gravesen, Marie Ladekjær

Chome, Ngala

Rettberg, Simone

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Nachhaltigkeit
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Entwicklungsökonomie & Emerging Markets
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Sozialpolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: 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

Über Autor(innen)

Greiner Clemens:
Clemens Greiner is the academic coordinator of the Global South Studies Center (GSSC). His current research focuses on rural change, political ecology, translocality, and (energy) infrastructures in Kenya. His regional specialization is on Eastern and Southern Africa.