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Author:   Jeremy Lind ,  Doris Okenwa ,  Ian Scoones ,  Adriana Blache
Publisher:   James Currey
Imprint:   James Currey
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.254kg
ISBN:  

9781847012494

ISBN 10:   1847012493
Pages:   224
Publication Date:   15 May 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General/trade ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

"Introduction: The Politics of Land, Resources & Investment in Eastern Africa's Pastoral Drylands - Jeremy Lind Introduction: The Politics of Land, Resources & Investment in Eastern Africa's Pastoral Drylands - Doris Okenwa Introduction: The Politics of Land, Resources & Investment in Eastern Africa's Pastoral Drylands - Ian Scoones Local Transformations of LAPSSET: Evidence from Lamu, Kenya - Ngala Chome Town Making at the Gateway to Kenya's ""New Frontier"" - Hannah Elliott Contentious Benefits & Subversive Oil Politics in Kenya - Doris Okenwa Meanings of Place & Struggles for Inclusion in the Lake Turkana Wind Power Project - James Drew Conflict & Resistance around a Rice Development Scheme in the SAGCOT Area of Tanzania - Adriana Blache Hosting Refugees as an Investment in Development: Grand Designs versus Local Expectations in Turkana County, Kenya - Cory Rodgers Negotiating Access to Land & Resources at the Geothermal Frontier in Baringo, Kenya - Clemens Greiner The Berbera Corridor Development & Somaliland's Political Economy - Ahmed M. Musa State-building, Market Integration & Local Responses in South Omo, Ethiopia - Fana Gebresenbet The Impacts of Delay: Exploring a Failed Large-scale Agro-investment in Tanzania - Linda Engström Twilight Institutions: Land-buying Companies & their Long-term Implications in Laikipia, Kenya - Marie Ladekjær Gravesen Farmer-led Irrigation Investments: How Local Innovators are Transforming Failed Irrigation Schemes - Gregory Akall Shifting Regimes of Violence within Ethiopia's Awash Valley Investment Frontier - Simone Rettberg"

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This rich and highly informative book highlights local understanding of investment projects and offers interpretations of how their meaning and importance are framed by diverse agents. * Pastoralism *

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Clemens Greiner is the academic coordinator of the Global South Studies Center (GSSC). His current research focuses on rural change, political ecology, translocality, and (energy) infrastructures in Kenya. His regional specialization is on Eastern and Southern Africa.

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