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SWEET DEAL, BITTER LANDSCAPE gender politics and liminality in tanzania's new enclosures.

Sweet Deal, Bitter Landscape brings us to the mid-2000s, when the Tanzanian government struck a deal with a foreign investor to convert more than 20,000 hectares of long-settled coastal land to establish a sugarcane plantation. Ten years on, the deal was abruptly abandoned. Popularly deemed a case o...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: CHUNG, YOUJIN B.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: [S.l.] : CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2024.
Series:Cornell Series on Land: New Perspectives on Territory, Development, and Environment Series
Subjects:
Land tenure > Social aspects > Tanzania.
Rural development > Political aspects > Tanzania.
Rural development > Tanzania.
Women > Tanzania > Social conditions.
AFRICAN HIST & DIASPORA.
GENDER STUDIES.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • Note on Currency
  • Introduction
  • 1. The Making of a Sweet Deal
  • 2. The Making of a Bitter Landscape
  • 3. On Being Counted: Gender, Property, and "the Family"
  • 4. Governing Liminality: The Bio-necropolitics of Gender
  • 5. Negotiating Liminality: Everyday Resistance and the Moral Economies of Difference
  • 6. Of Privilege, Lawfare, and Perverse Resistance
  • Conclusion
  • Glossary of Swahili Terms
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index