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Author Chung, Youjin B., 1987- author.

Title Sweet deal, bitter landscape : gender politics and liminality in Tanzania's new enclosures / Youjin B. Chung
Published Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2023

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Description 1 online resource
Series Cornell series on land: new perspectives on territory, development, and environment
Contents The making of a sweet deal -- The making of a bitter landscape -- On being counted: gender, property, and "the family" -- Governing liminality: the bio-necropolitics of gender -- Negotiating liminality: everyday resistance and the moral economies of difference -- Of privilege, lawfare, and perverse resistance
Summary "Legions of investors have rushed to acquire land in Africa to produce agricultural commodities; Sweet Deal, Bitter Landscape investigates one such land deal in Tanzania and the gendered ways it has shaped everyday life."-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject EcoEnergy (Firm) -- Influence
Rural development -- Tanzania
Women -- Tanzania -- Social conditions
Rural development -- Political aspects -- Tanzania
Land tenure -- Social aspects -- Tanzania
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Land tenure -- Social aspects
Rural development
Rural development -- Political aspects
Women -- Social conditions
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography
Tanzania
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2023017733
ISBN 9781501772023
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9781501772030
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