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Disrupting Territories: Land, Commodification & Conflict in Sudan

Disrupting Territories: Land, Commodification & Conflict in Sudan

Gertel, Jörg
Rottenburg, Richard
Calkins, Sandra

Hardcover

Series: Eastern Africa, Book 20

EconomicsReal EstateAnthropology

ISBN10: 1847010547
ISBN13: 9781847010544
Publisher: James Currey
Published: May 15 2014
Pages: 271
Weight: 1.30
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.30
Language: English
Examines the commodification of land rights and the effect of international licences for resource extraction on the pastoral communities of Sudan.

Nowhere has a range of case studies of Sudan been brought together in a single volume. Given the concern with the growing number and complexity of conflicts in Sudan and South Sudan there is a significant readership in academic circles and from those involved in humanitarian organisations of all kinds. Professor Peter Woodward, University of Reading

A timely contribution to an important set of debates ... tackles questions emerging from discussions about modernisation, urbanisation and globalisation from an explicitly local angle with regards to Sudan. Dr Harry Verhoeven, University of Oxford

Sudan experiences one of the most severe fissures between society and territory in Africa. Not only were its international borders redrawn when South Sudan separated in 2011, but conflicts continue to erupt over access to land: territorial claims are challenged by local and international actors; borders are contested; contracts governing the privatization of resources are contentious; and the legal entitlements to agricultural land are disputed. Under these new dynamics of land grabbing and resource extraction, fundamental relationships between people and land are being disrupted: while land has become a global commodity, for millions it still serves as a crucial reference for identity-formation and constitutes their most important source of livelihood.

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