Disrupting Territories (eBook, ePUB)

Land, Commodification & Conflict in Sudan
Redaktion: Gertel, Jörg; Calkins, Sandra; Rottenburg, Richard

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Produktbeschreibung

Examines the commodification of land rights and the effect of international licences for resource extraction on the pastoral communities of Sudan.



Nowhere has a range of case studies of Sudan been brought together in a single volume. Given the concern with the growing number and complexity of conflicts in Sudan and South Sudan there is a significant readership in academic circles and from those involved in humanitarian organisations of all kinds. Professor Peter Woodward, University of Reading

"A timely contribution to an important set of debates ... tackles questions emerging from discussions about modernisation, urbanisation and globalisation from an explicitly local angle with regards to Sudan." Dr Harry Verhoeven, University of Oxford

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.

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

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Abingdon Press
• Seitenzahl: 271
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Mai 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781782042945
• Artikelnr.: 56407617

Autorenporträt

Jörg Gertel, Richard Rottenburg, Sandra Calkins

Inhaltsangabe

Disrupting territories: commodification and its consequences by Jörg
Gertel, Richard Rottenburg and Sandra Calkins Agricultural Investment
through Land Grabbing in Sudan by Siddiq Umbadda Territories of gold
mining: international investment and artisanal extraction in Sudan by
Sandra Calkins and Enrico Ille Oil, Water and Agriculture: Chinese impact
on Sudanese land use by Janka Linke Nomad-sedentary relations in the
context of dynamic land rights in Darfur: from complementarity to conflict
by Musa Adam Abdul-Jalil Sedentary-nomadic relations in a shared territory:
post-conflict dynamics in the Nuba mountains, Sudan by Guma Kunda Komey
Entangled land and identity: Beja history and institutions by Sara
Pantuliano Gaining an access to land: everyday negotiations and ethnic
politics of Rashaida in north-eastern Sudan by Sandra Calkins Hausa and
Fulbe on the Blue Nile: land conflict between farmers and herders by Elhadi
Ibrahim Osman and Günther Schlee A central marginality: the
invisibilization of urban pastoralists in Khartoum state by Barbara
Casciarri