Bonds And Boundaries In Northern Ghana And Southern Burkina Faso
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Bonds And Boundaries In Northern Ghana And Southern Burkina Faso
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Author : Sten Hagberg
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000
Bonds And Boundaries In Northern Ghana And Southern Burkina Faso written by Sten Hagberg and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Burkina Faso categories.
Land And The Politics Of Belonging In West Africa
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Author : Richard Kuba
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2005-12-01
Land And The Politics Of Belonging In West Africa written by Richard Kuba and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-12-01 with Social Science categories.
Recognizing that land rights are ambiguous, negotiable and politically embedded, these case studies explore the long-term processes and recent changes in contemporary rural West Africa affecting the conversion of control over land into social and political capital and vice versa. They point to the colonial origins of what came to be viewed as ‘customary’ tenure and to the legal pluralism characterizing pre-colonial tenure arrangements. Furthermore, they show the spiritual and ritual importance of land that can be converted into political power and economic prerogatives, a dimension neglected by much of the recent literature. Analyses cover forest and savannah, state and segmentary societies, facilitating comparison and insights across the Anglo-Francophone divide.
The Political Ecology Of Household Water In Northern Ghana
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Author : Irit Eguavoen
language : en
Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster
Release Date : 2008
The Political Ecology Of Household Water In Northern Ghana written by Irit Eguavoen and has been published by LIT Verlag Münster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Anthropology categories.
Household water provides the entry point for this ethnography and study of institutional change. The book discusses the political economy of poverty and presents the polyphone discourse on water and the environment. It outlines water history and water rights from the 1970s onwards, and analyzes social dynamics. It offers a critical voice in the debate on climate change by arguing that local and global perceptions are not necessarily coherent.
Missionary Spaces
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Author : Thomas Coomans
language : en
Publisher: Leuven University Press
Release Date : 2024-05-02
Missionary Spaces written by Thomas Coomans and has been published by Leuven University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-05-02 with Religion categories.
The ‘spatial turn’ of missionary places Situated at the crossroads of missionary history, imperial history and colonial architecture, this volume examines the architectural staging and spatial implications of the worldwide expansion of Christianity in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. By focusing on specific architectural fragments, analysing the intersection of Christian edifices in colonial and traditional urban settings or unravelling the social understanding of missionary places, each chapter strives to understand the agency of missionary spaces. Bringing together scholars from different disciplines and fields, this book aims to centre those missionary spaces by approaching them not merely as décor around and within which the missionary encounter was acted, but by making them part and parcel of it. Through its approach, Missionary Spaces provides a new paradigm for scrutinising the ‘spatial turn’ for missionary histories and contributes to the increased attention across the humanities to space, place, and location since the late 1990s. Space does not occur as an historical given, but as a social construction to be analysed, while at the same time having explanatory value of its own. This book focuses on Africa and the Chinese Region with contributions on Burundi, China, Congo, Egypt, Ghana, Kenya, and Taiwan.
Rights And The Politics Of Recognition In Africa
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Author : Harri Englund
language : en
Publisher: Zed Books
Release Date : 2004-09-18
Rights And The Politics Of Recognition In Africa written by Harri Englund and has been published by Zed Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-09-18 with Political Science categories.
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Land Mobility And Belonging In West Africa
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Author : Carola Lentz
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2013-07-05
Land Mobility And Belonging In West Africa written by Carola Lentz and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-07-05 with Social Science categories.
An ethnographic study of issues of land rights, property regimes, and ethnicity in West Africa. Focusing on an area of the savannah in northern Ghana and southwestern Burkina Faso, Land, Mobility, and Belonging in West Africa explores how rural populations have secured, contested, and negotiated access to land and how they have organized their communities despite being constantly on the move as farmers or migrant laborers. Carola Lentz seeks to understand how those who claim native status hold sway over others who are perceived to have come later. As conflicts over land, agriculture, and labor have multiplied in Africa, Lentz shows how politics and power play decisive roles in determining access to scarce resources and in changing notions of who belongs and who is a stranger. “Illuminates the distinctive historical trajectory of land claims, authority, and belonging among the Dagara and Sisala peoples of the Black Volta region, and locates this specific case history within broader debates over transformation in access, use, and control over land in colonial and postcolonial Africa.” —Sara Berry, Johns Hopkins University “Important in the sense that it constitutes a detailed historical study of how complex narratives of belonging and notions of property interlock. . . . It is academic work of the first order.” —Christian Lund, Roskilde University
Space Place And Identity
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Author : Florian Köhler
language : en
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Release Date : 2020-03-20
Space Place And Identity written by Florian Köhler and has been published by Berghahn Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-03-20 with Social Science categories.
Known as highly mobile cattle nomads, the Wodaabe in Niger are today increasingly engaged in a transformation process towards a more diversified livelihood based primarily on agro-pastoralism and urban work migration. This book examines recent transformations in spatial patterns, notably in the context of urban migration and in processes of sedentarization in rural proto-villages. The book analyses the consequences that the recent change entails for social group formation and collective identification, and how this impacts integration into wider society amid the structures of the modern nation state.
State Recognition And Democratization In Sub Saharan Africa
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Author : L. Buur
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2007-11-26
State Recognition And Democratization In Sub Saharan Africa written by L. Buur and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-11-26 with Political Science categories.
Being critical and empirically grounded, the book explores the complex, often counter-balancing consequences of the involvement of traditional authority in the wave of democratization and liberal-style state-building that has rolled over sub-Saharan Africa in the past decade.
Domesticating Vigilantism In Africa
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Author : Thomas G. Kirsch
language : en
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Release Date : 2010
Domesticating Vigilantism In Africa written by Thomas G. Kirsch and has been published by Boydell & Brewer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Law categories.
An unprecedented overview of anthropological and political science research on vigilantism in Africa which makes an important and innovative contribution to current discussions on the relationship between violent self-justice andstate and non-state agencies. Self-justice and legal self-help groups have been gaining importance throughout Africa. The question of who is entitled to formulate 'legal principles', enact 'justice', police 'morality' and sanction 'wrongdoings' has increasingly become a subject of controversy and conflict. These conflicts focus on the strained relationship between state sovereignty and citizens' self-determination. More particularly, they concern the conditions, modes and means of thelegitimate execution of power, and in this volume are seen as a diagnostics as to how social actors in Africa debate and practise socio-political order. State agencies try to bring vigilante groups under control by channelling their activities, repressing them, or using them for their own interests. Vigilante groups usually must struggle for recognition and acceptance in local socio-political spheres. As several of the contributions in the volume show, legal self-help groups in Africa therefore 'domesticate' themselves by, among other things, seeking legitimation, engaging in publicly acceptable non-vigilante activities, or institutionalizing what often began as a rather unrestrained and 'disorderly' social movement. Thomas G. Kirsch is Professor & Chair of Social & Cultural Anthropology at the University of Constance, Germany; Tilo Grätz is Senior Research Fellow at the University of Hamburg, Germany & Associate Lecturer at the University of Halle-Wittenberg.
Pastoralism And Socio Technological Transformations In Northern Benin
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Author : Georges Djohy
language : en
Publisher: Göttingen University Press
Release Date : 2017
Pastoralism And Socio Technological Transformations In Northern Benin written by Georges Djohy and has been published by Göttingen University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with Agriculture categories.
Pastoralists throughout Africa face increasing pressures. In Benin, governmental development policies and programmes in crop farming are changing power relations between herders and farmers to favour the latter. How are the Fulani pastoralists responding to these threats to their existence? Georges Djohy explores the dynamics in local use of natural resources and in inter-ethnic relations resulting from development interventions. He combines the approaches of science and technology studies – looking at the co-construction of society and technology – and political ecology – looking at the power relations shaping the dynamics of economic, environmental and social change – so as to throw light on the forces of marginalisation, adaptation and innovation at work in northern Benin. Having worked there for many years, Djohy has been able to uncover gradual processes of socio-technological change that are happening “behind the scenes” of agricultural development involving mechanisation, herbicide use, tree planting, land registration and natural resource conservation. He reveals how farmers are using these interventions as “weapons” in order to gain more rights over larger areas of land, in other words, to support indigenous land grabbing from herders who had been using the land since decades for grazing. He documents how the Fulani are innovating to ensure their survival, e.g. by using new technologies for transport and communication, developing new strategies of livestock feeding and herd movement, and developing complementary sources of household income. The Fulani are organising themselves from local to national level to provide technological and socio-cultural services, manage conflicts and gain a stronger political voice, e.g. to be able to achieve demarcation of corridors for moving livestock through cultivated areas. They even use non-functioning mini-dairies – another example of development intervention – to demonstrate their modernity and to open up other opportunities to transform their pastoral systems. This book provides insights into normally hidden technical and social dynamics that are unexpected outcomes of development interventions.