Käser, Fabian; Marfurt, Franziska; Lustenberger, Samuel (6 September 2014). Ethnography of a Land-Deal. Local Perceptions and Vertical Perspectives of a Large Scale Land Acquisition Project in Northern Sierra Leone (Unpublished). In: 8th European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) General Conference. University of Glasgow. 06.09.2014.
In the aftermath of the devastating civil war, the Sierra Leonean government created favourable conditions for foreign investors willing to lease large areas of land to bring development to the country.
A team of anthropologists and geographers did extensive fieldwork on the Addax Bioenergy Project in order to a) document the project affected people’s (PAP) perceptions and interests on a horizontal level and b) identify the different actors that are necessary for the implementation of such a project on the vertical level.
Findings indicate that the project triggers a number of processes: Cultural and linguistic differences between PAP and company, their diverse understanding of development and the stance of local elites led to misunderstandings concerning each other’s responsibilities and created a lot of frustration on both sides. Further, the loss of natural resources that comes along with the land lease affects mostly women and other vulnerable groups.
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Conference or Workshop Item (Speech) |
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Division/Institute: |
06 Faculty of Humanities > Department of Art and Cultural Studies > Institute of Social Anthropology |
UniBE Contributor: |
Käser, Fabian David |
Subjects: |
300 Social sciences, sociology & anthropology 500 Science > 550 Earth sciences & geology |
Language: |
English |
Submitter: |
Fabian Käser |
Date Deposited: |
12 May 2015 10:20 |
Last Modified: |
02 Mar 2023 23:26 |
Uncontrolled Keywords: |
Large scale land acquisitions; local perception; social anthropology; development; gender; network |
URI: |
https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/68441 |
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