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This book is the result of a long-term cooperation between French and East African scholars and universities under the aegis of the French Institute of Research in Africa (IFRA-Nairobi). This book presents the main results of the research program Cooperation for University and Scientific Research (CORUS): Mountains and Small and Medium Cities in East Africa: Environmental Management, Flows of People and Resources, funded by the French Ministry of Foreign Afairs and supported by IFRA-Nairobi. The specific subject is to rethink the development of the East African mountains in relation to the fast growing towns and cities that surround them. Three East-African mountains were chosen: Mount Kenya...
Since the late twentieth century, multicultural reforms to benefit minorities have swept through Latin America, however, in Colombia ethno-racial inequality remains rife. Becoming Heritage evaluates how heritage policies affected the Afro-Colombian community of San Basilio de Palenque after it was proclaimed by UNESCO as Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in 2005. Although the designation partially delivered on its promise of multicultural inclusion, it also created ethno-racial exclusion and conflict among groups within the Palenquero community. The new forms of power, knowledge, skills and values created to safeguard heritage exacerbated political, social, symbolic and economic inequalities among Palenqueros, and did little to ameliorate the harsh realities of living and dying in Palenque. Bringing together broader discussions on race, nation and inclusion in Colombia, Becoming Heritage reveals that inequality in Palenque is not only a result of Black Colombians' uneven access to resources; it is enforced through heritage politics, expertise and governance.
This interdisciplinary volume provides a comprehensive and rich analysis of the century-long socio-ecological transformation of Lake Naivasha, Kenya. Major globalised processes of agricultural intensification, biodiversity conservation efforts, and natural-resource extraction have simultaneously manifested themselves in this one location. These processes have roots in the colonial period and have intensified in the past decades, after the establishment of the cut-flower industry and the geothermal-energy industry. The chapters in this volume exemplify the multiple, intertwined socio-environmental crises that consequently have played out in Naivasha in the past and the present, and that continue to shape its future.
This study highlights the agency of African economic actors in the green tea trade between China and West Africa, their unique tea brand designs, their challenges and successes, and the social and cultural context in which they conduct their work.
Bringing together imaginative architectural approaches with texts by key contemporary thinkers, the two-part Informal Market Worlds explores new ways to interrupt the dominant logics of neoliberal governance. The Reader includes expert essays on urban informality, bottom-up economies and informal architectures as harbingers of social and political change. Offering a global perspective on the conflicted realities of informal marketplaces--from survival activities of the urban poor to transnational clandestine trade networks--these analyses reveal how informality has become a political instrument in the struggles around global market integration.
Associée à la mauvaise gouvernance, la corruption désigne l’irresponsabilité des fonctionnaires, des employés du secteur privé, de tout citoyen ainsi que du personnel des institutions diplomatiques. Ce cinquième numéro de Nouvelles Dynamiques Africaines a intégré des contributions pluridisciplinaires pour mieux comprendre la corruption en Afrique sub-saharienne. De la corruption qui touche les services de police en République démocratique du Congo, à celle qui gangrène le secteur foncier au Kenya et au Zimbabwe, en passant par celle qui sape tout effort de développement à Madagascar, aux Comores ou au Sénégal, ce numéro haut en couleur présente ce grand fléau sous un jour nouveau.
The Routledge Handbook of the Horn of Africa provides a comprehensive, interdisciplinary survey of contemporary research related to the Horn of Africa. Situated at the junction of the Sahel-Saharan strip and the Arabian Peninsula, the Horn of Africa is growing in global importance due to demographic growth and the strategic importance of the Suez Canal. Divided into sections on authoritarianism and resistance, religion and politics, migration, economic integration, the military, and regimes and liberation, the contributors provide up-to-date, authoritative knowledge on the region in light of contemporary strategic concerns. The handbook investigates how political, economic, and security inno...
En hommage au professeur Bernard Charlery de La Masselière (université Toulouse ? Jean Jaurès), quatre géographes, toulousains et bordelais, ont coordonné les contributions de 32 auteurs, dont 13 de pays du Sud. L'objet principal est de réfléchir à la diversité des trajectoires des systèmes ruraux dans les pays tropicaux; il met en lumière des dynamiques de production, d'intégration et de diversifications dans des espaces de plus en plus connectés à d'autres échelles. L'essentiel du propos relève de géographies sociales faisant la part belle au terrain. La première partie porte sur les moyens de production agricole et montre, à partir de plusieurs entrées et études de cas, des processus croissants de différenciations socio-spatiales. La seconde est consacrée aux échanges et en particulier aux mobilités. Elle souligne des complémentarités rural-urbain à partir d'études de cas en Afrique anglophone et francophone. La troisième examine des dispositifs d'articulation de sociétés rurales à la mondialisation. Les modalités actuelles de production, d'intégration et de diversification créent-elles de nouvelles géographies de ruralités dans les Suds?
"Comment une périphérie territoriale, le Sud-Ouest tanzanien--Mbeya et les montagnes Uporoto--, s'intègre-t-elle à des échelles géographiques diverses et des dynamiques socio-économiques plus globales? Cet ouvrage montre comment les cultures commerciales destinées à la ville et le commerce d'articles bon marché importés redéfinissent le système d'échanges entre les territoires agricoles et urbains au sein de cette montagne-carrefour. Lectures de paysages, relevés de transects, d'itinéraires commerçants et entretiens rendent compte de la coexistence inédite entre des loques de continuité et de discontinuité spatiales, et de la redéfinition des identités et des rapports sociaux qui en résulte. Enrichi par de nombreuses illustrations, Montagnes, routes et marchés en Tanzanie permet d'appréhender les transformations géographiques et sociales de cette région d'Afrique orientale."--Page 4 of cover.