Simmering Tensions and Emerging Conflicts Among Key Group Actors Amid Capitalist Transformation in Northern Ghana DOI Creative Commons
Ibrahim Wahab, Joseph Awetori Yaro,

Gloria Afful‐Mensah

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Journal of Agrarian Change, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: Dec. 22, 2024

ABSTRACT A capitalist agrarian transformation is unfolding in northern Ghana, marked by shifts crop types, rapid increases farm sizes and deepening rural social differentiation. This paper investigates these dynamics through a mixed‐methods approach across six farming communities two districts, focusing on how differentiation, accumulation, dispossession exploitation reshape the region. Urban male capitalists, collusion with local chiefs, drive mutual enrichment, while women landless youth are disproportionately disadvantaged. Their land rights increasingly eroded as powerful elites traditional ruling families appropriate accumulate capital at their expense. transformation, rooted patriarchal structures, fuelling tensions pockets of resistance among affected groups. The highlights individuals groups can thwart often well‐intentioned state‐led agriculture modernization initiatives for parochial interests. It shows predominantly urban‐based power brokers frequently hijack state's effort to reform sector context neoliberal economies Global South. offers broader insights into differentiation that arise between various competing group Finally, it raises questions justice generations gender which have implications political economy change structural Ghana. extend beyond cohesion, potential impacts biodiversity loss climate change.

Language: Английский

A Just Transition or a Downward Spiral? Land and Livelihood Transitions to and Away From Coal Mining in India DOI Creative Commons
Patrik Oskarsson, Suravee Nayak, Nikas Kindo

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Journal of Agrarian Change, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: Feb. 26, 2025

ABSTRACT When coal mines expand across Central and Eastern India, agrarian groups typically object strongly to displacement. Meanwhile, often in the immediate vicinity of expanding mines, previously displaced now working economy protest against mine closures. Additional millions are situated somewhere between attempts protect livelihoods keeping a job as their lives become increasingly conflated with, dependent on, coal. In this article, we draw on long‐term recent engagements two coal‐producing states India reflect difficult livelihood transitions away from mining among indigenous caste Hindu groups. We focus enduring value land for which there is no good substitute means social reproduction. inevitably closes, lacking skills holdings generate downward spiral enforced towards insecure informality. This creates tensions concept ‘just transitions’ when applied Indian sector.

Language: Английский

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‘Small gold and small grain’: social reproduction, labour exchanges, and dependencies in Zimbabwe’s resettlement areas DOI

Melusi Nkomo

The Journal of Peasant Studies, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: unknown, P. 1 - 22

Published: Nov. 26, 2024

This research examines the processes through which labour power is socially reproduced and acquired within agrarian contexts of Kwekwe district in central Zimbabwe, characterised by smallholder agriculture artisanal small-scale mining (ASM). It uses social reproduction lens to argue that such contexts, conceptions (and work) value(s) attributed them frequently change a complex network relationships, interactions, roles/tasks, subjective ideas. The intricate web cultural exchanges, dependencies shape acquisition, exploitation, valorisation, reproduction, extending beyond mere productivist economistic perspectives.

Language: Английский

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Simmering Tensions and Emerging Conflicts Among Key Group Actors Amid Capitalist Transformation in Northern Ghana DOI Creative Commons
Ibrahim Wahab, Joseph Awetori Yaro,

Gloria Afful‐Mensah

et al.

Journal of Agrarian Change, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: Dec. 22, 2024

ABSTRACT A capitalist agrarian transformation is unfolding in northern Ghana, marked by shifts crop types, rapid increases farm sizes and deepening rural social differentiation. This paper investigates these dynamics through a mixed‐methods approach across six farming communities two districts, focusing on how differentiation, accumulation, dispossession exploitation reshape the region. Urban male capitalists, collusion with local chiefs, drive mutual enrichment, while women landless youth are disproportionately disadvantaged. Their land rights increasingly eroded as powerful elites traditional ruling families appropriate accumulate capital at their expense. transformation, rooted patriarchal structures, fuelling tensions pockets of resistance among affected groups. The highlights individuals groups can thwart often well‐intentioned state‐led agriculture modernization initiatives for parochial interests. It shows predominantly urban‐based power brokers frequently hijack state's effort to reform sector context neoliberal economies Global South. offers broader insights into differentiation that arise between various competing group Finally, it raises questions justice generations gender which have implications political economy change structural Ghana. extend beyond cohesion, potential impacts biodiversity loss climate change.

Language: Английский

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