Land, Mobility, and Belonging in West Africa : Natives and Strangers /

Focusing on an area of the savannah in northern Ghana and southwestern Burkina Faso, this book 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. The...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Lentz, Carola
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Bloomington, IN : Indiana University Press, 2013
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Rural development.
Migrant agricultural laborers.
Land use.
Farmers.
HISTORY > Africa > West.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Agriculture > Animal Husbandry.
Utilisation du sol > Afrique occidentale.
Developpement rural > Afrique occidentale.
Travailleurs agricoles migrants > Afrique occidentale.
Agriculteurs > Afrique occidentale.
Land use > Africa, West.
Rural development > Africa, West.
Migrant agricultural laborers > Africa, West.
Farmers > Africa, West.
West Africa.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Pushing frontiers : the social organization of mobility
  • Staking claims : earth shrines, ritual power, and property rights
  • Setting boundaries, negotiating entitlements : contested borders and bundles of rights
  • Ethnicity, autochthony, and politics of belonging
  • History versus history : contemporary land conflicts in a context of legal and institutional pluralism.

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