Sweet Deal, Bitter Landscape Gender Politics and Liminality in Tanzania's New Enclosures
Sweet Deal, Bitter Landscape brings us to the mid-2000s, when the Tanzanian government struck a deal with a foreign investor to convert more than 20,000 hectares of long-settled coastal land to establish a sugarcane plantation. Ten years on, the deal was abruptly abandoned. Popularly deemed a case o...
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2024
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