WE RISE FOR OUR LAND: Land Struggles and Repression in Southern Africa - Couverture souple

Shivji, Issa; Madzwamuse, Masego

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1988832683 ISBN 13 : 9781988832685

Editeur : Daraja Press, 2021

Synopsis

In recent years southern Africa has aroused the interest of domestic and foreign investors targeting several sectors. Agrarian and extractive capital has been penetrating the countryside, causing land conflicts, displacement of local peasant communities and in worse cases, deaths. Rural people in general have not, been passive—alone or in alliance with non-governmental organizations and activists, they have organized raised their voices. Resistance movements to capital are taking place throughout the region, even when faced with repression. The book provides critical assessments of the dynamics of agrarian and extractive capital in southern Africa: with contributions from DRC, Namibia, Zambia, Malawi, Zimbabwe, Swaziland, Mozambique, Mauritius and Madagascar.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Issa Shivji was born in central Tanzania and grew up in Kilosa and Dar es Salaam. He graduated from the University of East Africa in 1970 and immediately joined the Faculty of Law, University of Dar es Salaam where he was professor of law until his retirement in 2006. From 2008 to 2013 he was the first Mwalimu Nyerere Professor of Pan-African Studies at the University. He has published over a dozen books and numerous articles. His first book was Class Struggles in Tanzania (1976) followed by Law State and the Working Class in Tanzania (1986) and The Concept of Human Rights in Africa (1989). Drawing on Amilcar Cabral, Walter Rodney and Antonio Gramsci, his more recent work has focused on developing the concept of working people as the motive force of revolutionary transformation in Africa and building of counter-hegemonies to face times of political crisis.

Selected other books: Where is Uhuru? Reflections on the Struggle for Democracy in Africa (FAHAMU Books, Pambazuka Press) (2009); Silences in NGO Discourse: The role and future of NGOs in Africa (Fahamu Books, Pambazuka Press) (2007)Pan Africanism in Nyerere's Thoughts (Fahamu Books, Pambazuka Press) (2009) Pan-Africanism or Pragmatism. Lessons of the Tanganyika-Zanzibar Union (Mkuki na Nyota Publishers) (2008); The Concept of Human Rights in Africa (Codesria) (1989)

Sara Lagardien Abdullah is a final year undergraduate student at the University of Cape Town and a Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellow, majoring in Sociology and African Studies, working concurrently as a research assistant, film writer and assistant producer. In 2016, they co-founded NAH, a zine publication platform for youth discursive expression and critical engagement. Sara's interests oscillate between food, land, autonomy, history, knowledge (re)production, memory, land justice, restoring and decolonial re-storying praxis. Wu Jin (PhD, Professor) is associate dean of the College of Humanities and Development Studies at the China Agricultural University. Her main research interests are China's international development cooperation. She's participated in more than ten research projects on both China's domestic transformation and international engagements. Pablo Gilolmo Lobo holds a bachelor's degree in history from the University of Granada and a master's degree in geography from the University of Namibia. He is currently finalizing his PhD dissertation in the Center for Social Studies at the University of Coimbra, with a study on the privatization of communal lands in eastern Namibia. His research interests include the political economy of imperialism, the agrarian question in southern Africa and agroecology. He has participated in many congresses and other academic events, and has published in conference proceedings, specialized journals and book chapters. Uacitissa Mandamule is a research assistant at Observatório do Meio Rural in Mozambique. Mandamule is also a PhD student in sociology at the University of Aix-Marseille, France. Through a multi-scalar approach to land issues, her research portrays socio-political aspects of access, control, use, conflicts and tenure security of land, focusing on rural areas. Her interests are also related to the impacts of extreme weather events on land tenure security and productivity. Fatima Mandhu (PhD) works in the field of land and property relations as a result of her postgraduate research on the dual land tenure system and land registration in Zambia. Mandhu has been teaching and researching land law and property relations since 1990. She is one of the editors of the book Responsible and Smart Land Management Interventions: An African Context (2020, Boca Raton: CRC Press). Her interest in mining law was raised under the National Science and Technology Council's joint project as the team leader for Zambia an

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Daraja Press
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1988832683
• ISBN 13: 9781988832685
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 239
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible