This book explores how a British land investment in Tanzania's Iringa region
reshapes access to common pool resources. Using feminist political ecology, New
Institutionalism, and Neo-Marxist theory, it examines gendered impacts on land use,
food security, and resilience. From pre-colonial times to present, it traces changing
institutional arrangements. Drawing on Scott's Weapons of the Weak and Ferguson's
Anti-Politics Machine, it highlights local resistance and power dynamics in large-scale
land deals.
D'esir'ee Gmür holds a PhD in Social Anthropology from the University of Bern, Switzerland and
is a senior lecturer and researcher at the Institute of Social Anthropology and Empirical Cultural
Studies (ISEK) at the University of Zurich.
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Grabbing the Female Commons
Gendered outcomes of commons and resilience grabbing by large-scale land acquisitions for forest plantations in Kilolo district, Iringa region, Tanzania
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Grabbing the Female Commons
Gendered outcomes of commons and resilience grabbing by large-scale land acquisitions for forest plantations in Kilolo district, Iringa region, Tanzania
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- Cover
- Table of contents
- 1. Introduction
- 2. State of the art on large-scale land acquisitions
- 3. Theoretical and analytical framework
- 4. Specific research questions and working hypotheses
- 5. Methodology
- 6. Context – situating the Tanzanian case
- 7. The New Forests Company’s investment in the Kilolo district
- 8. Ethnography of a land deal
- 9. Discussion and conclusion
- 10. References
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