Integration and Conflict Studies #23: Lands of the Future

Anthropological Perspectives on Pastoralism, Land Deals and Tropes of Modernity in Eastern Africa

Integration and Conflict Studies #23: Lands of the Future
Gunther Schlee, Echi Christina Gabbert, Fana Gebresenbet, John G Galaty
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16 Dec 2020 UK
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9781789209907
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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' .

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"Explains clearly how changes in pastoral and agro-pastoral land use/lease in East Africa lead to environmental degradation and depletion of resources. . . a very important book. " Taddesse Berisso, Addis Ababa University"The overall volume is highly coherent, well integrated, ethnographically convincing as well as written with technical clarity and sober positioning. " Felix Girke, University of Konstanz
Echi Christina Gabbert is an anthropologist at the Institute for Social and Cultural Anthropology, Goettingen University, Germany. She coordinates the Lands of the Future Initiative, that focuses on pastoralism, global investment and local responses in East Africa in the 21rst century. Fana Gebresenbet is Assistant Professor at the Institute for Peace and Security Studies (IPSS) at Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia. He has done extensive fieldwork on land investment in pastoral regions of Ethiopia. John G. Galaty is Professor of Anthropology at McGill University, Canada. Focused on eastern Africa, his areas of specialisms are pastoralism and social change and rangeland development. Gunther Schlee is one of the Founding Directors of the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle, Germany. His main publications include Identities on the Move: Clanship and Pastoralism in Northern Kenya (Manchester University Press, 1989) and How Enemies Are Made: Towards a Theory of Ethnic and Religious Conflict (Berghahn Books, 2008).
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ISBN-13: 9781789209907
Published: 16 Dec 2020
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Berghahn Books
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Format: Hardback
Height: 229mm
Width: 152mm
Pages: 396

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