Handbook of Translocal Development and Global Mobilities

Contents:

1 Introduction to the Handbook of Translocal Development and
Global Mobilities 1
Guus van Westen, Maggi Leung, Kei Otsuki and Annelies Zoomers

PART I TRANSLOCAL DEVELOPMENT IN MIGRATORY
LANDSCAPES
2 Moving far away to stay: translocal livelihoods, labour
migration corridors and mobility in rural Nicaragua 13
Nanneke Winters, Griet Steel and Carlos Sosa
3 Environmentally related migration in the digital age: the case
of Bangladesh 27
Ingrid Boas
4 Development against migration: investments, partnerships and
counter-tactics in the West African-European migration industry 42
Joris Schapendonk

PART II TRANSLOCAL DEVELOPMENT IN LANDSCAPES
OF VALUE CHAIN DEVELOPMENT AND AGRIBUSINESS
5 Beyond the value chain: local impacts of 'global' inclusive
agribusiness investments - examples from Ghana 58
Guus van Westen
6 Land-based investments and the inevitability of increased
farmer-Fulani pastoralist conflicts in Northern Ghana 76
Sebastiaan Soeters, Ruben Weesie and Annelies Zoomers
7 Global flows of investments in agriculture and
irrigation-related technologies in sub-Saharan Africa 92
Janwillem Liebrand, Wouter Beekman, Chris de Bont and Gert Jan
Veldwisch
8 Land investment flows and translocal development chains of
'impairing destruction' 110
Alberto Alonso-Fradejas

PART III TRANSLOCAL DEVELOPMENT IN LANDSCAPES
OF NATURE CONSERVATION AND WILDLIFE
CONSERVATION
9 Global investment flows in land restoration and nature conservation 131
Marja Spierenburg
10 Involuntary resettlement projects as a frontier of sustainable
translocal development 147
Kei Otsuki

PART IV TRANSLOCAL DEVELOPMENT IN LANDSCAPES
OF LARGE-SCALE MINING
11 The mining sector in sub-Saharan Africa: flows of capital and
people in large-scale mining and artisanal and small-scale mining 162
Chris Huggins
12 Corporate and migrant investment in a gold-mining
development corridor: the case of Suriname 179
Marjo de Theije
13 Civil society's positionality in new development chains:
insights from the land and mining sectors in Tanzania 191
Joanny Belair and Thabit Jacob

PART V TRANSLOCAL DEVELOPMENT IN LANDSCAPES
OF NEW CITY DEVELOPMENT AND URBAN
INFRASTRUCTURES
14 New master-planned cities in Africa: translocal flows
'touching ground'? 206
Femke van Noorloos
15 Urban infrastructure and displacement: two sides of the
sustainability coin 218
Murtah Shannon
16 Conclusions 232
Kei Otsuki, Guus van Westen and Annelies Zoomers

Index

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• Ambiente
• Geografia humana
• Estudos sobre o desenvolvimento
• Sociologia
• Obras de referência

translocal development; globalisation; migration; remittances; land investments; Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)