Greco, E orcid.org/0000-0002-7580-3444 (2016) Village land politics and the legacy of ujamaa. Review of African Political Economy, 43 (S1). pp. 22-40. ISSN 0305-6244
Abstract
The paper explores the legacies of ujamaa for Tanzanian village land management through the analysis of ethnographic data. The first section considers the ujamaa legacies for Tanzanian village administrative and political institutions and the weight of past top-down politics. In the second section, village land politics are investigated in the light of the reform of the land laws in order then to underline the role of village authorities in collective land claims and to illustrate how village land allocations occur in practice. The third section analyses data from three villages to reflect on the salience of village land politics and Village Land Use Plans. Ujamaa leaves its legacy in the continuity of a potential for democratisation from below resisting the continuity of authoritarianism and centralised decision making from above.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2016 ROAPE Publications Ltd. This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Review of African Political Economy on 24 August 2016, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/03056244.2016.1219179. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | Class dynamics, Tanzania, land grab, politics of land |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Environment (Leeds) > School of Earth and Environment (Leeds) > Sustainability Research Institute (SRI) (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 22 Nov 2016 11:08 |
Last Modified: | 24 Feb 2018 01:38 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1080/03056244.2016.1219179 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Taylor & Francis (Routledge) |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/03056244.2016.1219179 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:108064 |