Land, mobility, and belonging in West Africa [[electronic resource] /] / Carola Lentz

• Autore: Lentz Carola
• Pubblicazione: Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, c2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (348 p.)
• Disciplina: 307.720966
• Soggetto topico: Migrant agricultural laborers - Africa, West; Farmers - Africa, West
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 the politics of belonging -- History versus history: contemporary land conflicts in a context of legal and institutional pluralism.
• Sommario/riassunto: Focusing on an area of the savannah in northern Ghana and southwestern Burkina Faso, Land, Mobility, and Belonging in West Africa 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. Carola Lentz seeks to understand how those who claim native status hold sway over others who are perceived to have come later. As conflicts over land, agriculture, and labor have multiplied in Africa, Lentz shows how politics and power play decisive roles in determi
• Titolo autorizzato: Land, mobility, and belonging in West Africa
• ISBN: 0-253-00961-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910465644203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II