Talking ‘land grabs’ is talking politics: land as politicised rhetoric during Tanzania’s 2015 elections

Schlimmer, Sina

doi:10.1080/17531055.2017.1410757

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“…14 The children' performance included a crucial diacritical practice that frequently appears when critical observers engage with foreign investments in Tanzania: they contrast a nationalist and at least rhetorically smallholderfarmer-oriented state of the past, for whom (foreign) capital was not the base but the outcome of development, with a neoliberal-authoritarian state of the present (Shivji 2006;Mwami & Kamata 2011), which makes space for capital by utilizing the state machinery and the resources it had acquired during "primitive socialist accumulation" (Gray 2018: 98). The protest has not been limited to the situation described, as the rhetoric of land grabbing played a crucial role up to the general election in 2015, with the new government promising to curb harmful land deals, revoke titles of contested investments and draft a new land policy that promised to toughen conditions for foreign investors (Schlimmer 2017). Under the regime of John Magufuli, from 2015 14.…”

Section: The Politics Of Capital Placements In Agriculturementioning

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Farming as Financial Asset

Ouma¹

2020

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Fundamental to the Economic Transformations series is the conviction that "geography matters" in the diverse ways that economies work, for whom they work, and to what ends. The so-called imperatives of globalization, the promises of development, the challenges of environmental sustainability, the dull compulsion of competitive life, the urgency of campaigns for economic rights and social justice -in all of these realms geography really matters, just as it does for a host of other contemporary concerns, from financialized growth to climate change, from green production to gender rights, from union renewal to structural adjustment. This major new series will publish on these and related issues, creating a space for interdisciplinary contributions from political economists, economic geographers, feminists, political ecologists, economic sociologists, critical development theorists, economic anthropologists, and their fellow travellers.

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Section: The Politics Of Capital Placements In Agriculturementioning

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Farming as Financial Asset

Ouma¹

2020

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“…(Nyerere, 1966, p. 55-56) For Nyerere, Tanzanians were the only legitimate land owners. This rejection of foreign land acquisitions and the promotion of land ownership based on citizenship were key elements of nation-building in Tanzania (Schlimmer, 2018b;Aminzade, 2013).…”

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Negotiating Land Policies to Territorialise State Power

Schlimmer¹

2019

Revue Internationale Des Études Du Développement

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Land policies have been shaping the (trans)formation of the Tanzanian state since independence. Nevertheless, Tanzania has been referred to as a target country of the international "land rush," which is often associated with a declining role of state actors in the land sector. This article argues, on the contrary, that the negotiations of land deals since the end of the 2000s have reconfirmed an interdependent relationship between land policy processes and state-building. While the formulation of investment-promoting land policies since the 1990s suggests that the privatisation of the sector has increased the leeway for foreign investors, their implementation has reaffirmed the omnipresence of state power. More broadly, the theoretical aim of this article is to consider large-scale land deals as a heuristic object for studies in political science investigating state (trans)formation in Africa.

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Negotiating the marketization of higher education in East Africa: a comparative analysis of Tanzania and Kenya

Provini

2018

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Since the 2000s, the literature on the ongoing higher education reforms in Africa has been increasing. The scientific discussion converges in an implicit and recurrent argument about the drivers of these policies. Given the involvement of international experts in the policy design, university reforms are often described as the output of the incentives of international stakeholders and the representatives of international organizations. The aim of this paper is to add a new variable to understand higher education reforms in East Africa, which has been neglected by scholars. In fact, the article sheds light on the determining role of domestic actors in the (re)negotiation of policy processes in Tanzania and Kenya, especially administrative and academic staff and students. Rather than evaluating the success or the failure of the reforms, this paper aims to highlight the power plays between a various set of domestic actors who reshape the outcomes of higher education policies. The paper crosses the experiences from the reform processes of the University of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania and the University of Nairobi in Kenya.

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Talking ‘land grabs’ is talking politics: land as politicised rhetoric during Tanzania’s 2015 elections

Cited by 13 publications

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Farming as Financial Asset

Farming as Financial Asset

Negotiating Land Policies to Territorialise State Power

Negotiating the marketization of higher education in East Africa: a comparative analysis of Tanzania and Kenya

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