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New Terra Nullius Narratives and the Gentrification of Africa's "Empty Lands"
Journal of World-Systems Research
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New Terra Nullius Narratives and the Gentrification of Africa's "Empty Lands"
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Geisler, Charles
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Extraterritorial ownership and control of sub-Saharan African land have a long and troubledhistory. This research investigates a much-studied practicethe recent enclosure of African landand resourcesbut asks a little-studied question: how are non-Africans reasserting terra nulliusnarratives of the past to justify the present transformation of African landscapes? The answersuggested here lies in a bulwark of de facto terra nullius claims couched in security needs of theglobal North and referenced to the low density of Africas rural population, its land and laborunder-utilization, the ambiguity of its land tenure and related low yields, and its arrestedcivilization. De facto terra nullius is neither narrow in scope nor static in application. It isstirring again as a potent justificatory logic for north-south land relations.
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University Library System, University of Pittsburgh
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2015-08-26
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info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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application/pdf
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http://jwsr.pitt.edu/ojs/index.php/jwsr/article/view/484
10.5195/jwsr.2012.484 |
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Journal of World-Systems Research; Volume 18, Issue 1, 2012; 15-29
1076-156X |
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eng
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http://jwsr.pitt.edu/ojs/index.php/jwsr/article/view/484/496
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| Rights |
Copyright (c) 2015 Charles Geisler
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
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