A Law for the Environment
Author | : Alexandre Charles Kiss |
Publisher | : IUCN |
Total Pages | : 298 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9782831702032 |
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Author | : Alexandre Charles Kiss |
Publisher | : IUCN |
Total Pages | : 298 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9782831702032 |
Author | : Stephen and Downs Reyna |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 291 |
Release | : 2005-08-04 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1135300739 |
Ten anthropologists trace the machinations of war and the effects of violence in capitalist states, from their formation to the present. This collection, the newest volume in the War and Society series, questions the foundations of classical social theory while investigating local and international conflict through the critical and cross-cultural lens of social theory, history, and anthropology. The essays combine to challenge the notion developed by social theorists such as Comte, Spencer, Durkheim, and Engels that war will diminish with the formation and the perpetuation of a capitalist economy and industry. The development of capitalist states, and the nefarious and violent processes which must occur to reproduce capitalism, are rarely realized and then infrequently analyzed. Many western and ethnocentric scholarly representations of war succeed in hiding the deadly developments that occur as a result of capitalist state formation and relations.
Author | : Jean-Marie Baland |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 380 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780691128795 |
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Author | : Stephen P. Reyna |
Publisher | : Psychology Press |
Total Pages | : 291 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9056995898 |
This newest volume in the War and Society series questions the foundations of classical social theory while investigating local and international conflict through the critical and cross-cultural lens of social theory, history and anthropology.
Author | : Carola Lentz |
Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 349 |
Release | : 2013-07-05 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0253009618 |
An ethnographic study of issues of land rights, property regimes, and ethnicity in West Africa. Focusing on an area of the savannah in northern Ghana and southwestern Burkina Faso, Land, Mobility, and Belonging in West Africa explores how rural populations have secured, contested, and negotiated access to land and how they have organized their communities despite being constantly on the move as farmers or migrant laborers. Carola Lentz seeks to understand how those who claim native status hold sway over others who are perceived to have come later. As conflicts over land, agriculture, and labor have multiplied in Africa, Lentz shows how politics and power play decisive roles in determining access to scarce resources and in changing notions of who belongs and who is a stranger. “Illuminates the distinctive historical trajectory of land claims, authority, and belonging among the Dagara and Sisala peoples of the Black Volta region, and locates this specific case history within broader debates over transformation in access, use, and control over land in colonial and postcolonial Africa.” —Sara Berry, Johns Hopkins University “Important in the sense that it constitutes a detailed historical study of how complex narratives of belonging and notions of property interlock. . . . It is academic work of the first order.” —Christian Lund, Roskilde University
Author | : Richard Kuba |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 2005-12-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9047417038 |
Recognizing that land rights are ambiguous, negotiable and politically embedded, these case studies explore the long-term processes and recent changes in contemporary rural West Africa affecting the conversion of control over land into social and political capital and vice versa. They point to the colonial origins of what came to be viewed as ‘customary’ tenure and to the legal pluralism characterizing pre-colonial tenure arrangements. Furthermore, they show the spiritual and ritual importance of land that can be converted into political power and economic prerogatives, a dimension neglected by much of the recent literature. Analyses cover forest and savannah, state and segmentary societies, facilitating comparison and insights across the Anglo-Francophone divide.
Author | : Drylands Programme |
Publisher | : IIED |
Total Pages | : 36 |
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Author | : John Middleton |
Publisher | : Charles Scribner's Sons |
Total Pages | : 716 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Contains a collection of alphabetically-arranged entries from Ibadan to Mzilikazi on the history, geography, culture, religion and ideologies, wars, and economy of the African nations; and includes essays and photographs.
Author | : Jean-Philippe Platteau |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 444 |
Release | : 2015-12-08 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1136600442 |
In order for economic specialization to develop, it is important that well-defined property rights are established and that suspicion and fear of fraud do not pervade transactions. Such conditions cannot be created ex abrubto, but must somehow evolve. What needs to develop is not only suitable practices and rules themselves, but also the public agencies and moral environment without which generalized trust is difficult to establish. The cultural endowment of societies as they have developed over their particular histories is bound to play a major role in this regard, and the matter of cultual endowment is one of the central themes of this book. On the other hand, division of labour does not only require well-enforced property rights and trust in economic dealings. It is also critically conditioned by the thickness of economic space, itself dependent on population density. This provides the second major theme of the volume: market development, including the development of private property rights is not possible, or will remain very incomplete, if populations are thinly spread over large areas of land. The book makes special reference to sub-Saharan Africa.
Author | : Tijl Vanneste |
Publisher | : Reaktion Books |
Total Pages | : 433 |
Release | : 2021-09-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1789144361 |
A sweeping history of our enduring passion for diamonds—and the exploitative industry that fuels it. Blood, Sweat and Earth is a hard-hitting historical exposé of the diamond industry, focusing on the exploitation of workers and the environment, the monopolization of uncut diamonds, and how little this has changed over time. It describes the use of forced labor and political oppression by Indian sultans, Portuguese colonizers in Brazil, and Western industrialists in many parts of Africa—as well as the hoarding of diamonds to maintain high prices, from the English East India Company to De Beers. While recent discoveries of diamond deposits in Siberia, Canada, and Australia have brought an end to monopolization, the book shows that advances in the production of synthetic diamonds have not yet been able to eradicate the exploitation caused by the world’s unquenchable thirst for sparkle.