Disrupting Territories: Land, Commodification & Conflict in SudanHardcover, 15 May 2014

Disrupting Territories: Land, Commodification & Conflict in Sudan
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Part of Series
Eastern Africa
Print Length
271 pages
Language
English
Publisher
James Currey
Date Published
15 May 2014
ISBN-10
1847010547
ISBN-13
9781847010544

Description

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

Product Details

Book Format:
Hardcover
Country of Origin:
GB
Date Published:
15 May 2014
Dimensions:
23.62 x 15.49 x 2.03 cm
ISBN-10:
1847010547
ISBN-13:
9781847010544
Language:
English
Location:
Woodbridge
Pages:
271
Publisher:
James Currey
Weight:
589.67 gm

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