Land, mobility, and belonging in West Africa

Land, mobility, and belonging in West Africa / Carola Lentz.

Focusing on an area of the savannah in northern Ghana and southwestern Burkina Faso, this book 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. The...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lentz, Carola
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Bloomington, IN : Indiana University Press, 2013
Series:UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Farmers > Africa, West.
Migrant agricultural laborers > Africa, West.
Rural development > Africa, West.
Land use > Africa, West.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Agriculture > Animal Husbandry.
HISTORY > Africa > West.
Farmers
Land use
Migrant agricultural laborers
Rural development
West Africa
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Table of Contents:
  • 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 politics of belonging
  • History versus history : contemporary land conflicts in a context of legal and institutional pluralism.

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