Lands of the future. Anthropological perspectives on pastoralism, land deals and tropes of modernity in Eastern Africa

Authors
Echi Christina Gabbert, Fana Gebresenbet, John G. Galaty, Günther Schlee (eds.) 

Publisher
New York, Oxford: Berghahn

Year of publication
2021

ISBN
978-1-78920-990-7

OPAC

Abstract
Rangeland, forests and riverine landscapes of pastoral communities in Eastern Africa are increasingly under threat. Abetted by states who think that outsiders can better use the lands than the people who have lived there for centuries, outside commercial interests have displaced indigenous dwellers from pastoral territories. This volume presents case studies from Eastern Africa, based on long-term field research, that vividly illustrate the struggles and strategies of those who face dispossession and also discredit ideological false modernist tropes like ‘backwardness’ and ‘primitiveness’.