Prosperity in Rural Africa? (eBook, PDF)

Insights into Wealth, Assets, and Poverty from Longitudinal Studies in Tanzania
Redaktion: Brockington, Dan; Noe, Christine

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

How can we track change in poor rural areas where data are scarce? How do we know what general economic growth does to places which are considered rural backwaters? As poorer countries try to transform their economies, and as economies appear to be rebounding across Africa, what is that doing to the rural poor? Prosperity in Rural Africa? provides surprising and challenging answers to these questions. It brings together the expertise of a collection of researchers with decades of experience of working in Tanzania, all of whom faced a deceptively simple task: go back to your study sites, to the places you know well, and to the families you first visited and then describe, and try to explain, the changes that you see. The result is a fascinating compilation of insights and experience into the dynamics of rural societies in Tanzania, which highlights the importance of investment in assets for rural peoples and their success in doing so, largely through their endeavours in small-holder farming. Assets are centrally important to local definitions of wealth across the country. This matters a great deal because rural people's investment in assets is not counted when poverty lines are calculated. There are sound methodological reasons for this omission. But it means that when rural people invest in assets, then that growing prosperity is invisible in development data. This book shows what those data can miss. This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. September 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780192635389
• Artikelnr.: 62527994

Autorenporträt

Dan Brockington directs the Sheffield Institute of International Development at the University of Sheffield. He studied for his thesis at UCL with Kathy Homewood and has worked on aspects of natural resource management and livelihood change in East Africa based on long term fieldwork in remote locations. He has recently published (with Peter Billie Larson) The Anthropology of Conservation NGOs (Palgrave, 2018). Christine Noe is currently an Associate Professor at the University of Dar es Salaam. She trained for her PhD at the University of Cape Town where she graduated in 2009. Her research and teaching are mostly on conservation and development politics, land tenure and rights, and rural livelihood changes. She has held fellowships with the Five College Young African Scholars program (University of Massachusetts), All Africa House (University of Cape Town), and the Visiting African Fellowship (University of Cambridge). Christine believes that strong collaborations are the foundation on which solid African scholarship can be supported.

Inhaltsangabe

* 1: Dan Brockington and Christine Noe: Understanding Long Term Change
in Rural Tanzania
* Part 1: The Role of Assets in Understanding Social Change in Rural
Tanzania: Theoretical and Methodological Reflections
* 2: Dan Brockington and Christine Noe: Assets, Prosperity and Data in
Rural Africa
* 3: Olivia Howland, Christine Noe, and Dan Brockington: The Multiple
Meanings of Prosperity and Poverty in Tanzania
* 4: Dan Brockington, Ernestina Coast, Anna Mdee, Olivia Howland, and
Sara Randall: Assets and Domestic Units: Methodological Challenges
for Longitudinal Studies of Poverty Dynamics.
* Part 2: Case Studies of Change
* 5: Monique Borgerhoff Mulder: Tracing the Relationships between
Assets and Well-being in Complex Social Environments
* 6: Katherine A. Snyder, Emmanuel Sulle, Deodatus A. Massay, Anselmi
Petro, Paschal Qamara, and Dan Brockington: Modern Farming and the
Transformation of Livelihoods in Rural Tanzania
* 7: Christine Noe, Olivia Howland, and Dan Brockington: Women's Tears
or Coffee Blight: A Gender Dynamics and Livelihood Strategies in
Contexts of Agricultural Transformation in Tanzania
* 8: Dan Brockington: The Sesame Seed Cash Injection: Commodity-fuelled
Asset Booms in Remote Rural Tanzania
* 9: William Östberg, Dan Brockington, and Joseph Mduma: Self-made
Farmers and Sustainable Changea Entrepreneurs and Development in
Goima and Mirambu
* 10: Vesa-Mati Loiske and Dan Brockington: Prosperity, Equality, and
Power: Perspectives from Gitting and Gocho, Manyara Region
* 11: Agnes Andersson Djurfeldt, Ellen Hillbom, and Elibariki Msuya:
Ricing Fortunes: Agricultural Growth, Farm Intensification, and Paddy
Specialization in Two Tanzanian Villages
* 12: Stefano Ponte and Dan Brockington: Involution and Enterprise in
Rural Areas. A Twenty-Year Perspective on Rural and Agricultural
Change in Morogoro
* 13: Esbern Friis-Hansen: Rural and Agrarian Transformation 1984-2018
in Three Marginal Villages in Njombe Region, Tanzania
* 14: Cosmas Sokoni and Verdiana Tilumanywa: Exploring Long Term
Changes in People's Welfare on the Uporoto Highlands, Mbeya District,
Tanzania
* 15: Torben Birch-Thomsen and Esbern Friis-Hansen: Improved
Livelihoods on Less Land: The Case of Ilambilole and Ikuwala Villages
in Iringa Region, 1996-2017
* 16: Anna Mdee: The Urbanising Frontier, Change, and Continuity:
Uchira 1996-2018.
* Part 3: Conclusions
* 17: Christine Noe and Dan Brockington: Telling the Stories of Asset
Accumulation
* Epilogue: Doing Longitudinal Research
* Biographies of Principal Authors