Lands of the Future - (Integration and Conflict Studies) by Echi Christina Gabbert & Fana Gebresenbet & John G Galaty & Günther Schlee (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"Rangeland, forests and riverine landscapes of pastoral communities in Eastern Africa are increasingly under threat. Abetted by states who think that outsiders can better use the lands than the people who have lived there for centuries, outside commercial interests have displaced indigenous dwellers from pastoral territories. This volume presents case studies from Eastern Africa, based on long-term field research, that vividly illustrate the struggles and strategies of those who face dispossession and also discredit ideological false modernist tropes like 'backwardness' and 'primitiveness'"--<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p> Rangeland, forests and riverine landscapes of pastoral communities in Eastern Africa are increasingly under threat. Abetted by states who think that outsiders can better use the lands than the people who have lived there for centuries, outside commercial interests have displaced indigenous dwellers from pastoral territories. This volume presents case studies from Eastern Africa, based on long-term field research, that vividly illustrate the struggles and strategies of those who face dispossession and also discredit ideological false modernist tropes like 'backwardness' and 'primitiveness'.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p> <em>"Explains clearly how changes in pastoral and agro-pastoral land use/lease in East Africa lead to environmental degradation and depletion of resources... a very important book."</em> <strong>- Taddesse Berisso</strong>, Addis Ababa University</p> <p> <em>"The overall volume is highly coherent, well integrated, ethnographically convincing as well as written with technical clarity and sober positioning ...no comparable material exists in scope and focus."</em> <strong>- Felix Girke</strong>, University of Konstanz</p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p> <strong>Günther Schlee</strong> is Professor of Social Anthropology at Arba Minch University, Ethiopia, and Director emeritus at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle, Germany. His main publications include <em>Identities on the Move: Clanship and Pastoralism in Northern Kenya</em> (Manchester University Press, 1989) and <em>How Enemies Are Made: Towards a Theory of Ethnic and Religious Conflict</em> (Berghahn Books, 2008).</p>
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