Development and Subsistence in Globalising Africa : Beyond the Dichotomy / edited by Motoki Takahashi, Shuichi Oyama & Herinjatovo Aimé Ramiarison.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Takahashi, Motoki, editor.

Oyama, Shuichi, editor.

Ramiarison Herinjatovo, Aimé, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economic development.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (295 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Bamenda, Cameroon : Langaa Research & Publishing Common Initiative Group, [2021]

Summary:

In Africa, people striving to live and survive under the complex relationship between development and subsistence have been directly or indirectly feeling influences of globalisation. As Africa's involvement in globalisation deepens, social phenomena are apparently synchronizing or becoming more similar to those in the rest of the world, but they are not homogenised with them, especially those of developed countries now or in the past. The dichotomic view distinguishing development and subsistence has already become outdated. Day after day, African people are trying to reconcile or bridge the two as capable actors. People in Africa, faced with challenges common throughout the world, live in their own ways. Africa can contribute to the world by sharing knowledge acquired through the struggles of development and subsistence, and by bridging the two.

Contents:

Intro

Cover

Title Page

Copyright Page

Series Preface: African Potentials for Convivial World-Making

Motoji Matsuda

Introduction - Development and Subsistence in Globalising Africa: Beyond the Dichotomy

Motoki Takahashi, Shuichi Oyama, and Herinjatovo Aimé Ramiarison

PART I. Customs and Renewals in Rural Societies in Africa

1. Large-Scale Development Projects, Food Security Policy and Livelihoods of Agro-Pastoralists in Southwestern Ethiopia

Toru Sagawa

2. Creating Mutual Recognition and Respect in Property Relations: Negotiation Regarding Livestock Ownership and Usufruct in East African Pastoral Societies

Itaru Ohta

3. Levelling Mechanisms and Growing Economic Disparities Associated with Piecework Performed by the Bemba People of Zambia

Shuichi Oyama and Yuki Yoshimura

4. Conflicting Paradigms and Strategies of Local Innovation: A Case Study among the Bemba, Northern Zambia

Yuko Sugiyama and Tadasu Tsuruta

Part II. Connecting beyond Boundaries in Africa: Villages, Cities and Overseas

5. Submarine Cable and African Fruits: Construction of an Information Network by Southern Hemisphere Fed-Farms

Atsuko Munemura

6. Export-Led Industrialisation from Within: The Role of Mauritian Sugar Planters and Multi-Ethnic and International Collaboration

Kazuyo Ideue

7. The Potential Created by Mobility: Social Ties with Strangers in the Migration History of One Family in Northwestern Zambia

Masaya Hara

8. Urban Developments, the Diminishing Agricultural Land and the Significance of Urban Backyard Gardens in the City of Lusaka, Zambia

Godfrey Hampwaye, Garikai Membele and Linda Namakando

9. The Non-Agricultural Informal Sector in Madagascar: Assessing the Potential to Shift from a Logic of Survival to a Logic of Development

Herinjatovo Aimé Ramiarison.

Part III. Development and Survivals in African Cities

10. Horizontal Development and Knowledge-Sharing in an Industrial Cluster: Open-Air, Informal Sofa Manufacturing in Nairobi, Kenya

Motoki Takahashi, Masumi Owa and Kazuyo Ideue

11. West African Traders and Their Interactions with 'Aliens': Focusing on the Careers of Traders in Today's Ghana

Hitomi Kirikoshi

12. Struggles of Young Bike Taxi Men in West Cameroon: Rethinking a 'Bamiléké's Survival Strategy' toward the New Era

Makiko Sakai

13. The Parallel Money Market and Money Changers' Resilience: Case of Masvingo and Harare, Zimbabwe

Manasa Sibanda, Simbarashe Gukurume and Mayu Hayakawa

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9956-553-39-5

OCLC:

1381708917