Sweet Deal, Bitter Landscape
Sweet Deal, Bitter Landscape brings us to the mid-2000s, when the Tanzanian government struck a deal with a foreign investor to convert more than 20,000 hectares of long-settled coastal land to establish a sugarcane plantation. Ten years on, the deal was abruptly abandoned. Popularly deemed a case o...
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| description | Sweet Deal, Bitter Landscape brings us to the mid-2000s, when the Tanzanian government struck a deal with a foreign investor to convert more than 20,000 hectares of long-settled coastal land to establish a sugarcane plantation. Ten years on, the deal was abruptly abandoned. Popularly deemed a case of hubristic global development, critics classified this project another in a line of failed modern resource grabs.
Youjin B. Chung argues such tidy accounts conceal myriad and profound implications: not only how gender, history, and culture shaped the project's trajectory, but also how, even in its stalled state, the deal upended social life on the land by setting in motion incomplete processes of development and dispossession.
With rich ethnographic detail and visual storytelling, Sweet Deal, Bitter Landscape traces the lived experiences of diverse rural women and men as they struggled for survival under a seemingly endless condition of liminality. In so doing, she raises critical questions about the directions and stakes of postcolonial development and nation-building in Tanzania, and the shifting meanings of identity and belonging for those on the margins of capitalist agrarian transformation. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1323032025-03-23T02:52:45Z Sweet Deal, Bitter Landscape Chung, Youjin agrarian politics, global land grab, coastal Tanzania, international deals, liminality, feminist perspective Sweet Deal, Bitter Landscape brings us to the mid-2000s, when the Tanzanian government struck a deal with a foreign investor to convert more than 20,000 hectares of long-settled coastal land to establish a sugarcane plantation. Ten years on, the deal was abruptly abandoned. Popularly deemed a case of hubristic global development, critics classified this project another in a line of failed modern resource grabs. Youjin B. Chung argues such tidy accounts conceal myriad and profound implications: not only how gender, history, and culture shaped the project's trajectory, but also how, even in its stalled state, the deal upended social life on the land by setting in motion incomplete processes of development and dispossession. With rich ethnographic detail and visual storytelling, Sweet Deal, Bitter Landscape traces the lived experiences of diverse rural women and men as they struggled for survival under a seemingly endless condition of liminality. In so doing, she raises critical questions about the directions and stakes of postcolonial development and nation-building in Tanzania, and the shifting meanings of identity and belonging for those on the margins of capitalist agrarian transformation. 2024-01-05T04:04:58Z 2024-01-05T04:04:58Z 2024-01-04T14:39:23Z 2024 book OCN: 1414110040 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/86410 9781501772009 9781501772016 9781501772030 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/132303 eng Cornell Series on Land: New Perspectives on Territory, Development, and Environment open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/86410/1/9781501772023.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/86410/1/9781501772023.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/86410/1/9781501772023.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/86410/1/9781501772023.pdf Cornell University Press 05937e7b-c222-4680-9580-c09c5ce7a11e 9781501772009 9781501772016 9781501772030 269 open access |
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