Development and Subsistence in Globalising Africa

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In Africa, people striving to live and survive under the complex relationship between development and subsistence have been directly or indirectly feeling influences of globalisation. As Africa's involvement in globalisation deepens, social phenomena are apparently synchronizing or becoming more similar to those in the rest of the world, but they are not homogenised with them, especially those of developed countries now or in the past. The dichotomic view distinguishing development and subsistence has already become outdated. Day after day, African people are trying to reconcile or bridge the two as capable actors. People in Africa, faced with challenges common throughout the world, live in their own ways. Africa can contribute to the world by sharing knowledge acquired through the struggles of development and subsistence, and by bridging the two.

Sujets

• African Studies
• Ethnic Studies
• Social Science
• Sociologie, société et politique

Informations

• Publié par: Langaa RPCIG
• Date de parution: 13 mars 2021
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9789956553396
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Development and Subsistence in Globalising Africa
Beyond the Dichotomy
Edited by
Motoki Takahashi, Shuichi Oyama & Herinjatovo Aimé Ramiarison
In collaboration


Langaa RPCIG Mankon Bamenda
CAAS Kyoto University
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Langaa RPCIG
Langaa Research & Publishing Common Initiative Group
P.O. Box 902 Mankon
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Cameroon
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In Collaboration with
The Center for African Area Studies, Kyoto University, Japan
Distributed in and outside N. America by African Books Collective
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ISBN-10: 9956-551-57-0
ISBN-13: 978-9956-551-57-6
© Motoki Takahashi, Shuichi Oyama & Herinjatovo Aimé Ramiarison 2021

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Notes on Contributors
Simbarashe GUKURUME is Lecturer in the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology at Great Zimbabwe University. He holds a PhD in Sociology from the University of Cape Town. His research interests fall more broadly on youth, informality and social movements, livelihoods and displacement in spaces of socioeconomic and political fragility and crisis.
Godfrey HAMPWAYE is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies at the University of Zambia where he has been teaching for over 29 years. He is also a Senior Research Affiliate to the School of Tourism and Hospitality at the University of Johannesburg. He holds a PhD. His area of specialisation is economic geography with research interests in local economic development, urban agriculture and firm strategies and Asian investment in Africa. Over the past years, he has published scholarly papers and book chapters centred on his research interests.
Masaya HARA is Assistant Professor of Geography and Area Studies in the Graduate School of Human Development and Environment at Kobe University, Japan. His main research field is Zambia. His research topics are migration and people’s livelihood changes since the colonial period. His major works include: ‘Coexistence of multiple ethnic groups practicing different slash-and-burn cultivation systems adapted to field conditions in miombo woodlands in northwestern Zambia’, TROPICS , 28 (4), pp. 75–89 (2020).
Mayu HAYAKAWA is Visiting Researcher at the National Museum of Ethnology, Japan. Her research fields are Zimbabwe and Lesotho. Her research topics are popular economy and money usage. Her major works include: An Anthropology of Hyperinflation (Jimbunshoin 2015, in Japanese) and ‘Guided by weak conviction’, in S. Moyo & Y. Mine (eds), What Colonialism Ignored (Langaa RPCIG 2016).
Kazuyo IDEUE is Lecturer of African Studies and Development Studies at Ritsumeikan University, Japan. Her research interests include economic development and history in sub-Saharan Africa and the relationship between the two. Her most recent publication is ‘The relationship between sugar capital and industrialization in Mauritius: Focusing on the ownership and dominant structure of sugar-based capitalists and their investment to the industrial sectors’, Social System Study , 41, pp. 43–70 (2020, in Japanese).
Hitomi KIRIKOSHI is Lecturer in the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies at Kokushikan University, Japan. She has conducted research in Sahel zones of Niger and savanna/forest zones in Ghana. She developed an academic interest in environmental issues, resident livelihoods, and inter-regional and inter-ethnic links through the historical kola nut trade in West Africa. She is also interested in the globalisation of West African merchants.
Motoji MATSUDA is Professor of Sociology and Anthropology, Kyoto University, Japan. His research fields are Nairobi and Western Kenya. His research topics are urbanisation, migration and conflict. His major works include: Urbanisation from Below (Kyoto University Press 1998); The Manifesto of Anthropology of the Everyday Life World (Sekai Shisosha 2008, in Japanese); African Virtues in the Pursuit of Conviviality: Exploring Local Solutions in Light of Global Prescriptions (co-edited with Itaru Ohta and Yntiso Gebre, Langaa RPCIG 2017) and The Challenge of African Potentials: Conviviality, Informality and Futurity (co-edited with Yaw Ofosu-Kusi, Langaa RPCIG 2020).
Garikai MEMBELE is Lecturer in the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies at the University of Zambia. He holds an MSc in Geo-information Science and Earth Observation from the University of Twente in the Netherlands. He is currently pursuing his PhD studies at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa. His area of specialisation is GIS, remote sensing and urban planning and management. Research interests include land governance, land use/cover analysis, vulnerability mapping and volunteered geographical information (VGI).
Atsuko MUNEMURA is Senior Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at Chiba Keizai University, Japan. Her current research focuses on the fruits processing industry of South Africa from the historical perspective. Her major works include: ‘The emergence of canning industry in Western Cape, 1930-1940s: South African second industrialization in rural economy’, Bulletin of Asia Pacific Studies , 20, pp. 123–149 (2014, in Japanese). She also affiliates with the Japan Society for Afrasian Studies as a member of boards of directors.
Linda NAMAKANDO is a student in the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies at the University of Zambia. She is currently pursuing a Master of Science Degree in Spatial Planning. Her research interest is in urban agriculture, particularly how it is affected by urban developments.
Itaru OHTA is Emeritus Professor of the Centre for African Area Studies at Kyoto University, Japan. He has carried out anthropological research among the Turkana in Kenya and the Himba in Namibia. His major publications include: Devoting Themselves to Convivial Negotiation: Property Relations among the East African Pastoral Societies (Kyoto University Press 2021, in Japanese); African Virtues in the Pursuit of Conviviality: Exploring Local Solutions in Light of Global Prescriptions (co-edited, Langaa RPCIG 2017); African Potentials (editor-in-chief, a set of five volumes, Kyoto University Press 2016, in Japanese) and Conflict Resolution and Coexistence: Realizing ‘African Potentials’ (co-edited, Kyoto University 2014).
Masumi OWA is Associate Professor of Global Studies at Chukyo University in Japan. Her research topics are global governance in the field of international development, international cooperation and African development. Her publications include contributing chapters to Japanese Development Cooperation: The Making of an Aid Architecture Pivoting to Asia (Routledge 2016) and New Asian Approaches to Africa: Rivalries and Collaborations (Vernon Press 2020).
Shuichi OYAMA is Professor at the Center for African Area Studies, Kyoto University, Japan. He conducted multi-disciplinary research based on geography, anthropology, ecology and agronomy in Zambia, Uganda, Niger and Djibouti. His main publications include: ‘Action research and reverse thinking for anti-desertification methods’, in T. Haller & C. Zingerli (eds), Towards Shared Research: Participatory and Integrative Approaches in Researching African Environments (Transcript Publishers 2020).
Herinjatovo Aimé RAMIARISON is Professor of Economics and acting as General Coordinator of the University of Antananarivo Madagascar. He holds a PhD in Commerce from Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan. His research interests are in development economics, and he primarily focused his research on the development experiences of East Asian countries. Since 2002, his fields of study have covered development issues in sub-Saharan Africa and in Madagascar, more particularly in industrialisation, employment, labour markets and globalisation. His recent work is ‘Les facteurs d’informalité et les opportunités de transition vers l’économie informelle à travers l’étude diagnostic de la filière de commercialisation du vivrier marchand à Madagascar’, in F. Lapeyre & S. Barussaud (eds), La Formalisation Vue d’En Bas: Enjeux pour La Transition vers l’Economie Informelle , pp. 207–248 (Academia-l’Harmattan 2019).
Toru SAGAWA is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Letters at Keio University, Japan. He has conducted field research in East Africa. His recent works include: ‘Naturalography of co-existence among East African pastoral societies: An introductory overview of Japanese scholarship’, African Study Monographs , 40 (2/3) (2019 with I. Hazama) and ‘Waiting on a friend: Hospitality and gift to the “enemy” in the Daasanach’, Nilo-Ethiopian Studies , 23 (2019).
Makiko SAKAI is Associate Professor of Sociology at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (TUFS), Japan. Her main research fields are western Cameroon, central Tanzania and southern Chad. Her field topics are rural development viewed from local communities, subsistence agriculture and small-scale economic activities. Her major works include: ‘Famines and moral economy in agro-pastoralist society: Analysis of Gogo strategies from a historical perspective’, in S. Maghimbi, K. Sugimura & D. Mwamfupe (eds), Endogenous Development, Moral Economy and Globalization in Agro-pastoral Communities in Central Tanzania (Dar es Salaam University Press 2016), and Characteristics of Bike Taxis in African Rural Society: A Case Study of Dschang, West Cameroon (Fondation France-Japon de l’EHESS 2020).
Manasa SIBANDA is an anthropologist and currently Chairperson of Sociology and Social Anthropology Department at the Great Zimbabwe University. He holds a PhD in Social Anthropology from the University of Fort Hare, RS