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Land and Hydropolitics in the Nile River Basin : Challenges and New Investments
- 2016
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (refereegranskat)abstract
- The Nile River Basin supports the livelihoods of millions of people in Egypt, Ethiopia, Sudan and Uganda, principally as water for agriculture and hydropower. The resource is the focus of much contested development, not only between upstream and downstream neighbours, but also from countries outside the region. This book investigates the water, land and energy nexus in the Nile Basin.It explains how the current surge in land and energy investments, both by foreign actors as well as domestic investors, affects already strained transboundary relations in the region and how investments are intertwined within wider contexts of Nile Basin history, politics and economy. Overall, the book presents a range of perspectives, drawing on political science, international relations theory, sociology, history and political ecology.
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- Lanzano, Cristiano, et al.
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International aid and gendered roles in agricultural value chains : some reflections from a rural development program in Northern Senegal
- 2014
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Ingår i: Journal of Universities and international development Cooperation. - 2531-8772. ; 1, s. 671-679
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Overcoming the gender gap in agriculture is nowadays one of the focal points of major international institutions, governments and development agencies. In this paper, we discuss some effects of international aid in rural contexts on gender dynamics and women’s empowerment. Through the analysis of some small-scale projects in Northern Senegal – implemented within a wide rural development aid program in West Africa - we develop some reflections on the observed women-oriented projects: we stress the risk that women end up being “locked” into pre-defined roles, namely in small-scale food processing activities, by a standardized logic of aid projects. We develop an analysis of the practices that may lead to this outcome and of the characteristics of such “women roles” in value chains. We discuss this observation in the light of the gendered division of tasks in primary products value chains and of the literature on the integration of “gender” in development thinking. By means of this analysis, we draw some reflections on the discrepancy between explicit empowerment goals and unintended outcomes of aid.
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- Cadstedt, Jenny
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Tenants' and owners' participation in rotating savings groups and help groups : A study of housing tenure forms and social inclusion in Mwanza city, Tanzania
- 2012
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Ingår i: IDPR. International Development Planning Review. - : Liverpool University Press. - 1474-6743 .- 1478-3401. ; 34:1, s. 19-37
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- International policy emphasises the importance of slum dwellers' rights of access to cities and their social inclusion. Legalisation of land holdings in informal settlements is one way of enacting this policy. However, this measure favours house owners over the large proportion of tenants renting rooms in private houses in informal settlements in many cities in the global South. Rental housing is neglected by many governments. What role does the form of house tenure play in other processes of social inclusion in informal settlements? This article examines one of many forms of social inclusion: participation of tenants and owners in rotating savings groups and help groups in two areas in Mwanza city, Tanzania. The results indicate that both tenants and owners participate in groups, which are based not only on the geographical area of residence but on work, ethnicity and religion. The study also indicates that not all groups accept tenants as members, because of their high mobility.
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- Udelsmann Rodrigues, Cristina
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Strategies of Urban Inclusion in the Imagined Modern Luanda
- 2016
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Ingår i: Governing Urban Africa. - London : Palgrave Macmillan. - 9781349951086 - 9781349951093 ; , s. 191-211
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Luanda, the capital of Angola, has recently been subjected to extraordinary changes, supported by increased wealth and investments associated with the end of the war. The ideas of modernity that clearly stand out are deeply rooted in the city’s configuration and reconfiguration over the years. They inform not only the modernising perspectives and philosophy of policymakers and investors but also those of the urban dwellers. Often, however, the imagined modernity and its benefits do not match the lived realities. This chapter makes reference to the evolution of the city, emphasising the differences between main periods and identifying the underlining strategies in terms of inclusions and exclusions. The conclusions presented, based on empirical and documentary research, point to shifting strategies of urban inclusion and changing categories of the excluded.
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- Utas, Mats, et al.
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Networked City Life in Africa: Introduction
- 2012
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Ingår i: Urban Forum. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 1015-3802 .- 1874-6330. ; 23:4, s. 409-414
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- Lindell, Ilda
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The contested spatialities of transnational activism : gendered gatekeeping and gender struggles in an African association of informal workers
- 2011
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Ingår i: Global Networks. - : Wiley. - 1470-2266 .- 1471-0374. ; 11:2, s. 222-241
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this article I explore the geographies of emerging transnational networks of organized informal workers, with empirical reference to a local association based in Mozambique and a transnational network of which it is part. I uncover the gendered spatialities of this transnational activism to demonstrate how participation is unequal and heavily mediated rather than direct. In particular, I show how influential actors have engaged in practices of gendered gatekeeping that tend to keep women in place. I also explore the tensions that emerged because of these practices and the negotiation of divergent gender ideologies and strategies within the network. In the article, I relate to recent theoretical work that problematizes the unequal and contested geographies of transnational activism, and introduce insights from feminist scholarship to reflect on gender inequalities and gender visions in transnational networks.
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- Angerbrandt, Henrik
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Deadly elections : post-election violence in Nigeria
- 2018
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Ingår i: Journal of Modern African Studies. - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press. - 0022-278X .- 1469-7777. ; 56:1, s. 143-167
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Two decades after the third wave of democratization', extensive violence continues to follow elections in sub-Saharan Africa. Whereas national processes connected to pre-election violence have received increased scholarly attention, little is known of local dynamics of violence after elections. This article examines the 2011 Nigerian post-election violence with regard to the ways in which national electoral processes interweave with local social and political disputes. The most affected state, Kaduna State, has a history of violent local relations connected to which group should control politics and the state. It is argued that electoral polarisation aggravated national ethno-religious divisions that corresponded to the dividing line of the conflict in Kaduna. A rapid escalation of violence was facilitated by local social networks nurtured by ethno-religious grievances.
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