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Prosperity in rural Africa? : insights into wealth, assets, and poverty from longitudinal studies in Tanzania / / edited by Dan Brockington and Christine Noe [[electronic resource]]
| Prosperity in rural Africa? : insights into wealth, assets, and poverty from longitudinal studies in Tanzania / / edited by Dan Brockington and Christine Noe [[electronic resource]] |
| Edizione | [First edition.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford : , : Oxford University Press, , 2021 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (427 pages) |
| Disciplina | 330.9678 |
| Collana | Oxford scholarship online |
| Soggetto topico |
Rural development - Tanzania
Wealth - Tanzania |
| ISBN |
0-19-263538-7
0-19-189817-1 0-19-263539-5 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Intro -- Halftitle page -- Epigraph -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Boxes -- A Guide to Using the Book -- Biographies of Principal Authors -- Acknowledgements -- General -- Monique -- Christine -- Anna -- Torbern and Esbern -- Dan -- Agnes -- Permissions and Disclaimer -- 1. Understanding Long-Term Change in Rural Tanzania -- The Insistent Farmer -- The Argument -- Methods in Longitudinal Survey Research: Exploring Assets in Tanzania -- The Organization of This Book and How to Use It -- Part I. The Role of Assets in Understanding Social Change in Rural Tanzania: Theoretical and Methodological Reflections -- 2. Assets, Prosperity, and Data in Rural Africa -- Transforming Africa or Leaving Rural Areas Behind? -- How Do We Know about Rural Poverty? -- Assets in Rural Livelihoods -- Conclusion -- 3. The Multiple Meanings of Prosperity and Poverty in Tanzania -- Introduction -- A Brief Introduction to Asset Indices -- Methods -- Variations in Wealth and Poverty across and within Study Sites -- What Counts and What Does Not: Are Abbreviated Asset Indices Counting the Right Thing? -- Variation in the Meaning of Assets and Their Implications for Asset Indices -- Conclusion -- 4. Assets and Domestic Units: Methodological Challenges for Longitudinal Studies of Poverty Dynamics -- Introduction -- Assets and Poverty Dynamics over Time -- Domestic Units and Poverty Dynamics over Time -- Assets, Progress, and Change -- Conclusion: Exploring Asset Dynamics in Development Research -- Part II. Case Studies of Change -- 5. Tracing the Relationships between Assets and Well-Being in Complex Social Environments -- Introduction -- Ethnography and Methods -- Have Economic Livelihoods Improved or Faltered between 1995-2010? -- Assets as Indicators of Well-Being -- Discussion -- Conclusion.
6. 'Modern' Farming and the Transformation of Livelihoods in Rural Tanzania -- Economic Growth, Agriculture, and Intensification -- Tanzanian Policies: Smallholder Farming and Intensification -- The Setting and Research Method -- Findings -- Discussion -- Conclusion -- 7. Women's Tears or Coffee Blight? Gender Dynamics and Livelihood Strategies in Contexts of Agricultural Transformation in Tanzania -- Introduction -- Women, Agriculture, and Coffee -- Methods -- Gender Ideologies in Meru Society -- How Have Gender Norms Changed because of Emelea and Sambembe? -- Discussion: Contesting Change in Meru -- Conclusion -- 8. The Sesame Seed Cash Injection: Commodity-Fuelled Asset Booms in Remote Rural Tanzania -- Introduction -- Methods -- Findings -- Conclusion -- 9. Self-Made Farmers and Sustainable Change? Entrepreneurs and Development in Goima and Mirambu -- Introduction: Environmentalism in Tanzania -- Methods and Context: Studying and Re-studying Goima and Mirambu -- Goima and Mirambu Villages in the Early 1990s -- Goima and Mirambu Some Twenty-Five Years Later, First Impressions -- The Crucial Water Issue -- The Farming Boom -- Improved Livelihoods -- Changing Perceptions of Wealth and Quality of Life -- Migration and Change -- Drivers of Change -- Sustainable Growth? -- Conclusion: Challenging a Dominant Discourse on Rural Change in Tanzania -- 10. Prosperity, Equality, and Power: Perspectives from Gitting and Gocho, Manyara Region -- Introduction -- Methods -- Results -- Relating These Findings with the Literature -- Discussing Changes in Gitting and Gocho -- Conclusion -- 11. Ricing Fortunes: Agricultural Growth, Farm Intensification, and Paddy Specialization in Two Tanzanian Villages -- Introduction -- Rice-Led Agricultural Growth in Tanzania -- Theoretical Perspectives on Agricultural Transformation. Data Sources, Site Selection, and Description -- Empirical Analysis -- Concluding Remarks -- 12. Involution and Enterprise in Rural Areas: A Twenty-Year Perspective on Rural and Agricultural Change in Morogoro -- Introduction -- Findings -- Conclusion -- 13. Rural and Agrarian Transformation 1984-2018 in Three Marginal Villages in Njombe Region, Tanzania -- Introduction -- Fieldwork Methodology -- Prior Situation -- Agrarian and Rural Transformation: Spatial and Social Differentiation -- Economic Crisis, Adjustment, and State-Sponsored Agricultural Modernization (1984-9) -- Privatization, Liberalization, and Market Failure (1990-9) -- Main Social Changes -- Conclusion -- 14. Exploring Long-Term Changes in People's Welfare on the Uporoto Highlands, Mbeya District, Tanzania -- Introduction -- Description of the Study Area and Methods -- Changes in Cropping Systems and Household Assets on the Uporoto Highlands -- Hired Labour -- Assets -- Other Notable Changes -- Change in Wealth Status -- Drivers of Prosperity -- Conclusion -- 15. Improved Livelihoods on Less Land: The Case of Ilambilole and Ikuwala Villages in Iringa Region, 1996-2017 -- 'Origin of the Story' -- Methods of the Revisit -- Prior Status and Conditions -- Overall Changes -- Trajectories -- Conclusion -- 16. The Urbanizing Frontier, Change and Continuity: Uchira 1996-2018 -- Introduction -- A Village on a Frontier -- Uchira in 2004 -- Uchira in 2016 -- Dynamics of Service Provision -- Livelihoods Patterns in Uchira 2004-16 -- 2016-What Has Changed? -- Conclusion -- Part III. Conclusions -- 17. Telling the Stories of Asset Accumulation -- Explaining Change and Observing Its Consequences -- The Surprises of This Work -- Joining up Rural and Agricultural Development Policies -- Exploring Asset Dynamics in Longitudinal Research -- Conclusion -- Epilogue: Doing Longitudinal Research. Christine (Chapter 7) -- Stefano (Chapter 12) -- Dan (Chapter 8) -- Anna (Chapter 16) -- Cosmas (Chapter 14) -- Esbern (Chapters 13 and 15) -- Verdiana (Chapter 14) -- Christine -- Katherine (Chapter 6) -- Sulle (Chapter 6) -- Willie (Chapter 9) -- Dan -- Vesa-Matti (Chapter 10) -- Monique (Chapter 5) -- Agnes (Chapter 11) -- Torben (Chapter 15) -- Index. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910502689303321 |
| Oxford : , : Oxford University Press, , 2021 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Sweet Deal, Bitter Landscape : Gender Politics and Liminality in Tanzania's New Enclosures
| Sweet Deal, Bitter Landscape : Gender Politics and Liminality in Tanzania's New Enclosures |
| Autore | Chung Youjin B. <1987-> |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Ithaca : , : Cornell University Press, , 2024 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (269 pages) |
| Disciplina | 307.141209678 |
| Collana | Cornell Series on Land: New Perspectives on Territory, Development, and Environment Series. |
| Soggetto topico |
Land tenure - Social aspects - Tanzania
Rural development - Political aspects - Tanzania Rural development - Tanzania Women - Tanzania - Social conditions SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography |
| Soggetto non controllato | agrarian politics, global land grab, coastal Tanzania, international deals, liminality, feminist perspective |
| ISBN | 1-5017-7202-3 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | 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 |
| Record Nr. | UNISA-996580163203316 |
Chung Youjin B. <1987->
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| Ithaca : , : Cornell University Press, , 2024 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno | ||
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Sweet Deal, Bitter Landscape : Gender Politics and Liminality in Tanzania's New Enclosures
| Sweet Deal, Bitter Landscape : Gender Politics and Liminality in Tanzania's New Enclosures |
| Autore | Chung Youjin B. <1987-> |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Ithaca : , : Cornell University Press, , 2024 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (269 pages) |
| Disciplina | 307.141209678 |
| Collana | Cornell Series on Land: New Perspectives on Territory, Development, and Environment Series. |
| Soggetto topico |
Land tenure - Social aspects - Tanzania
Rural development - Political aspects - Tanzania Rural development - Tanzania Women - Tanzania - Social conditions SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography |
| Soggetto non controllato | agrarian politics, global land grab, coastal Tanzania, international deals, liminality, feminist perspective |
| ISBN | 1-5017-7202-3 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | 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 |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910765434703321 |
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Chung Youjin B. <1987->
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| Ithaca : , : Cornell University Press, , 2024 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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