Disrupting Territories: Land, Commodification & Conflict in Sudan - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1847010547 ISBN 13 : 9781847010544

Editeur : James Currey, 2014

Synopsis

This book examines the new dynamics of land-grabbing in Sudan as territorial claims to land and resources continue to be challenged by small-scale and international actors. Through a political economy of the region, and a diverse collection of case studies, the contributors reveal how pastoral livelihoods are increasingly being differentiated, regrouped in new clusters and exposed to new risks.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Sudan experiences one of the most severe fissures between society and territory in Africa. Not only were its international borders redrawn when South Sudan separated in 2011, but conflicts continue to erupt over access to land: territorial claims are challenged by local and international actors; borders are contested; contracts governing the privatization of resources are contentious; and the legal entitlements to agricultural land are disputed. Under these new dynamics of land grabbing and resource extraction, fundamental relationships between people and land are being disrupted: while land has become a global commodity, for millions it still serves as a crucial reference for identity-formation and constitutes their most important source of livelihood. This book seeks to disentangle the emerging relationships between people and land in Sudan. The first part focuses on the spatial impact of resource-extracting economies: foreign agricultural land acquisitions; Chinese investments in oil production; and competition between artisanal and industrial gold mining. Detailed ethnographic case studies in the second part, from Darfur, South Kordofan, Red Sea State, Kassala, Blue Nile, and Khartoum State, show how rural people experience "their" land vis-à-vis the latest wave of privatization and commercialization of land rights.

Biographie de l'auteur

Jörg Gertel is Professor of Economic Geography at Leipzig University; Richard Rottenburg is Chair of Anthropology at the University of Halle; Sandra Calkins is a research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: James Currey
• Date d'édition: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1847010547
• ISBN 13: 9781847010544
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 271
• Éditeur: Gertel Jörg, Rottenburg Richard, Calkins Sandra
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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