Between dependence and deprivation: The interlocking nature of land alienation in Tanzania

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dc.creatorBluwstein, Jevgeniy
dc.creatorLund, Jens Friis
dc.creatorAskew, Kelly
dc.creatorStein, Howard
dc.creatorNoe, Christine
dc.creatorOdgaard, Rie
dc.creatorMaganga, Faustin
dc.creatorEngström, Linda
dc.date2018-09-05T11:52:38Z
dc.date2018-09-05T11:52:38Z
dc.date2018-02-16
dc.date.accessioned2021-05-07T09:35:52Z
dc.date.available2021-05-07T09:35:52Z
dc.descriptionStudies of accumulation by dispossession in the Global South tend to focus on individual sectors, for example, large‐scale agriculture or nature conservation. Yet smallholder farmers and pastoralists are affected by multiple processes of land alienation. Drawing on the case of Tanzania, we illustrate the analytical purchase of a comprehensive examination of dynamics of land alienation across multiple sectors. To begin with, processes of land alienation through investments in agriculture, mining, conservation, and tourism dovetail with a growing social differentiation and class formation. These dynamics generate unequal patterns of land deprivation and accumulation that evolve in a context of continued land dependency for the vast majority of the rural population. Consequently, land alienation engenders responses by individuals and communities seeking to maintain control over their means of production. These responses include migration, land tenure formalization, and land transactions, that propagate across multiple localities and scales, interlocking with and further reinforcing the effects of land alienation. Various localized processes of primitive accumulation contribute to a scramble for land in the aggregate, providing justifications for policies that further drive land alienation.
dc.identifierBluwstein, J. et al (2018). Wiley Online Library: Between dependence and deprivation: The interlocking nature of land alienation in Tanzania. Journal of Agrarian Change, 2018, 1–25.
dc.identifierhttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11810/4764
dc.identifier10.1111/joac.12271
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11810/4764
dc.publisherWiley Online Library
dc.subjectaccumulation by dispossession, agriculture, conservation, land grabbing, Tanzania
dc.titleBetween dependence and deprivation: The interlocking nature of land alienation in Tanzania
dc.typeJournal Article

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