Lands of the future : anthropological perspectives on pastoralism, land deals and tropes of modernity in eastern Africa / edited by Echi Christina Gabbert [and four others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gabbert, Echi Christina, editor.

Series:

Integration and conflict studies ; 23.

Integration and conflict studies ; 23

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Land use, Rural--Africa, Eastern.

Land use, Rural.

Pastoral systems--Africa, Eastern.

Pastoral systems.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (346 pages).

Place of Publication:

New York ; Oxford : Berghahn, 2021.

Summary:

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’.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Illustrations

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

Introduction. Futuremaking with Pastoralists

Part I Setting the Context Modernity and Citizenship in Pastoral Areas

Chapter 1 Modern Mobility in East Africa Pastoral Responses to Rangeland Fragmentation, Enclosure and Settlement

Chapter 2 Unequal Citizenship and One-Sided Communication Anthropological Perspectives on Collective Identification in the Context of Large-Scale Land Transfers in Ethiopia

Chapter 3 Global Trade, Local Realities. Why African States Undervalue Pastoralism

Part II Contested Identities and Territories A History of Expropriation

Chapter 4 Modes of Dispossession of Indigenous Lands and Territories in Africa

Chapter 5 Land and the State in Ethiopia

Chapter 6 Persistent Expropriation of Pastoral Lands The Afar Case

Part III Power, Politics and Reactions to State-Building

Chapter 7 Anatomy of a White Elephant Investment Failure and Land Confl icts on Ethiopia’s Oromia–Somali Frontier

C hapter 8 From Cattle Herding to Charcoal Burning Land Expropriation, State Consolidation and Livelihood Changes in Abaya Valley, Southern Ethiopia

Chapter 9 Villagization in Ethiopia’s Lowlands Development vs. Facilitating Control and Dispossession

Part IV Underdeveloping South Omo

Chapter 10 ‘Breaking Every Rule in the Book’ Th e Story of River Basin Development in Ethiopia’s Omo Valley

Chapter 11 State-Building in the Ethiopian South-Western Lowlands Experiencing the Brunt of State Power in Mela

Chapter 12 Customary Land Use and Local Consent Practices in Mun (Mursi) A New Call for Meaningful FPIC Standards in Southern Ethiopia

Chapter 13 Ethiopia’s ‘Blue Oil’? Hydropower, Irrigation and Development in the Omo-Turkana Basin

Conclusion Pastoralists for Future

Glossary

Index

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781789209914

1789209919

9781805393788

1805393782

OCLC:

1347246460