Essays about: "Karolina Wallin Fernqvist"

Found 1 essay containing the words Karolina Wallin Fernqvist.

  1. 1. The ideological symptom of tenure insecurity : peasant experience of formalisation between dispossession and neoliberal discourse in rural Tanzania

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Urban and Rural Development

    Author : Karolina Wallin Fernqvist; [2015]
    Keywords : land tenure formalisation; ideology; dispossession; neoliberalism; peasant experience;

    Abstract : This thesis describes the peasant experience of land tenure formalisation in a context of repeated and continuous dispossession, from the introduction of colonial land legislation to current processes of alienation of land in favour of large-scale investment, and in the presence of a strong neoliberal discourse. Taking a stand against measuring the success of land tenure formalisation simply based on statistics and numbers and advocating a stance whereby experience is explored in the presence of a strong neoliberal discourse, a qualitative infield interview study was executed over nine weeks in Bugaga village, Tanzania. READ MORE