African Futures in the Making
James Currey (Verlag)
978-1-84701-422-1 (ISBN)
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Bringing together scholars in ecology, agriculture, economics, human geography and cultural anthropology, from Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Germany, The Netherlands and the UK, this book focusses on social-ecological transformation and future-making in rural Africa, especially in areas of rapid land-use change following the establishment of development corridors, conservation areas, and large-scale infrastructure projects. In Africa, discussions on the way forward are particularly conflict-ridden because people do not agree about desirable goals, because the gap between winners and losers seems to be bigger than elsewhere, and because the struggle for desirable futures is embedded in a problematic history of foreign domination and exploitation.
Focussing on eastern and southern Africa, topics examined range from the history of conservation initiatives and wildlife protection to visions of green development, from the gender implications of extreme climate events on pastoral economies to the use of information and communication technologies on farms and mobile money in geographically remote territories, from large-scale energy infrastructure projects and growth corridors to local ways of managing risk. The volume opens with reflections on African utopic registers of the future and conceptual decolonization in African futurity.
Published in association with the Collaborative Research Centre FUTURE RURAL AFRICA, funded by the German Research Council (DFG).
DETLEF MÜLLER-MAHN is Professor of Development Geography, University of Bonn. He served as the spokesperson of the Collaborative Research Center (CRC-TRR 228) "Future Rural Africa" 2018-2021. His research focuses on the political ecology of land use change and rural development in East Africa and the Middle East. Eric Kioko). MICHAEL BOLLIG is Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Cologne.
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
Introduction: Future-making and Social-ecological Transformation in Rural Africa
Detlef Müller-Mahn and Michael Bollig
Part 1: Bringing Future-Making into Perspective - African Perspectives and the Decolonial Turn
1 Black/African Imaginations of the Future
Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni
2 Conceptual Decolonization in African Universities: An Imperative for Shaping African Futures
Martin Ajei
Part Two: Technologies, imaginaries, and practices of future-making in rural Africa
3 'In technology we trust': Digital Visions and their Implications for Agricultural Futures in Eastern Africa
Astrid Matejcek, Rupert Neuhöfer, Julian Rochlitz, and Julia Verne
4 Green Futures and National Planning: Rhetoric and Reality in Rural East Africa
Eric M. Kioko, Detlef Müller-Mahn, and Maxmillian J. Chuhila
5 The Growth-Corridor Vision and its Realities - Regional Economic Impacts in Namibia and Tanzania
Javier Revilla Diez, Peter Dannenberg, Carolin Hulke, Linus Kalvelage, Gideon Tups, and Richard Mbunda
6 The Making of an Energy Resource Periphery? Scalar Politics, Frontier Dynamics, and Future-Making in Northern Kenya
Clemens Greiner, Britta Klagge, Kennedy Mkutu, and Frankline Ndi
7 Africa, The Conservation Continent? Future-Making and the Globalization of Wildlife Protection
Hauke-Peter Vehrs and Michael Bollig
Part Three For prayer, profit, and persistence - aspirations and hope in the future-making in rural Africa
8 Gendered African Futures and Extreme Climate Events in
Turkana, Kenya
Maggie Opondo, Gilbert Ouma, Anne Oketch, and Dennis Ong'ech
9 Reimagining Africa's Rural Futures in the Age of Mobile Money
Prince K Guma
10'Joining the church' as a Form of Future-making? Il Chamus Christians' Futural Orientations in Baringo County, Northern Kenya
Dorothea Schulz, Uroš Kovač
11 The Politics of Anticipation in East Africa's Rangelands
Ian Scoones, Tahira Shariff Mohamed, and Masresha Taye
Epilogue: African Futures and the Way Forward
Detlef Müller-Mahn and Michael Bollig
Index
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 27.1.2026 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Future Rural Africa |
| Zusatzinfo | 10 maps, 6 colour and 1 b/w illus. |
| Verlagsort | Oxford |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Themenwelt | Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien | |
| Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-84701-422-4 / 1847014224 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-84701-422-1 / 9781847014221 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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