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Drylands Facing Change: Interventions, Investments and Identities

Drylands Facing Change: Interventions, Investments and Identities

García, Angela Kronenburg
Haller, Tobias
Van Dijk, Han

Paperback

Series: Earthscan Studies in Natural Resource Management

Environmental Studies

ISBN10: 1032393513
ISBN13: 9781032393513
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Aug 26 2024
Pages: 258
Weight: 0.88
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

This edited volume examines the changes that arise from the entanglement of global interests and narratives with the local struggles that have always existed in the drylands of Africa, the Middle East, and Central Asia/Inner Asia.

Changes in drylands are happening in an overwhelming manner. Climate change, growing political instability, and increasing enclosures of large expanses of often common land are some of the changes with far-reaching consequences for those who make their living in the drylands. At the same time, powerful narratives about the drylands as 'wastelands' and their 'backward' inhabitants continue to hold sway, legitimizing interventions for development, security, and conservation, informing re-emerging frontiers of investment (for agriculture, extraction, infrastructure), and shaping new dryland identities. The chapters in this volume discuss the politics of change triggered by forces as diverse as the global land and resource rush, the expansion of new Information and Communication Technologies, urbanization, the COVID-19 pandemic, and the spread of violent extremism. While recognizing that changes are co-produced by differently positioned actors from within and outside the drylands, this volume presents the dryland's point of view. It therefore takes the views, experiences, and agencies of dryland dwellers as the point of departure to not only understand the changes that are transforming their lives, livelihoods, and future aspirations, but also to highlight the unexpected spaces of contestation and innovation that have hitherto remained understudied.

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