Sweet Deal, Bitter Landscape : Gender Politics and Liminality in Tanzania's New Enclosures

Sweet Deal, Bitter Landscape Gender Politics and Liminality in Tanzania's New Enclosures

Sweet Deal, Bitter Landscape brings us to the mid-2000s, when the Tanzanian government struck a deal with a foreign investor to convert more than 20,000 hectares of long-settled coastal land to establish a sugarcane plantation. Ten years on, the deal was abruptly abandoned. Popularly deemed a case o...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Chung, Youjin B., 1987- (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca : Cornell University Press 2024.
Edición:1st ed
Colección:Cornell series on land.
Materias:
Land tenure > Social aspects > Tanzania.
Rural development > Political aspects > Tanzania.
Rural development > Tanzania.
Women > Tanzania > Social conditions.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography.
agrarian politics, global land grab, coastal Tanzania, international deals, liminality, feminist perspective.
Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009785331306719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • Note on Currency
  • Introduction
  • 1. The Making of a Sweet Deal
  • 2. The Making of a Bitter Landscape
  • 3. On Being Counted: Gender, Property, and "the Family"
  • 4. Governing Liminality: The Bio-necropolitics of Gender
  • 5. Negotiating Liminality: Everyday Resistance and the Moral Economies of Difference
  • 6. Of Privilege, Lawfare, and Perverse Resistance
  • Conclusion
  • Glossary of Swahili Terms
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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