Inverting the Moral Economy: the Case of Land Acquisitions for Forest Plantations in Tanzania

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dc.creatorOlwig, M. F.
dc.creatorNoe, Christine
dc.creatorKangalawe, R.
dc.creatorLuoga, E.
dc.date2016-04-22T11:35:29Z
dc.date2016-04-22T11:35:29Z
dc.date2015
dc.date.accessioned2018-03-27T09:09:28Z
dc.date.available2018-03-27T09:09:28Z
dc.descriptionFull text can be accessed at http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01436597.2015.1078231
dc.descriptionGovernments, donors and investors often promote land acquisitions for forest plantations as global climate change mitigation via carbon sequestration. Investors’ forestry thereby becomes part of a global moral economy imaginary. Using examples from Tanzania we critically examine the global moral economy’s narrative foundation, which presents trees as axiomatically ‘green’, ‘idle’ land as waste and economic investments as benefiting the relevant communities. In this way the traditional supposition of the moral economy as invoked by the economic underclass to maintain the basis of their subsistence is inverted and subverted, at a potentially serious cost to the subjects of such land acquisition.
dc.identifierOlwig, M.F., Noe, C., Kangalawe, R. and Luoga, E., 2015. Inverting the moral economy: the case of land acquisitions for forest plantations in Tanzania. Third World Quarterly, 36(12), pp.2316-2336.
dc.identifierhttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/1654
dc.identifier10.1080/01436597.2015.1078231
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/4707
dc.languageen
dc.publisherTaylor & Francis Group
dc.subjectLand acquisitions
dc.subjectMoral economy
dc.subjectCarbon forestry
dc.subjectIdle land
dc.subjectSustainable investments
dc.subjectTanzania
dc.titleInverting the Moral Economy: the Case of Land Acquisitions for Forest Plantations in Tanzania
dc.typeJournal Article

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