Africa for Sale?
Positioning the State, Land and Society in Foreign Large-Scale Acquisitions in Africa
Sandra J.T.M. Evers, Caroline Seagle, Froukje Krijtenburg, VU University Amsterdam
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Biographical note
Sandra Evers is associate professor in Anthropology at VU University Amsterdam. Her research and publications deal with migration, slavery, cultural transmission and land issues in Madagascar within the context of globalisation, natural resource management, poverty and sustainable development. Dr Evers directs a research programme on foreign large-scale land acquisitions in Africa and Madagascar.
Caroline Seagle is a PhD candidate at the VU University Amsterdam. An environmental anthropologist by training, she was a recipient in the Land Deal Politics Initiative (LDPI) small grants competition and published in the Journal of Peasant Studies special issue on Green Grabbing (2012).
Froukje Krijtenburg is a post-doctoral fellow affiliated to VU University Amsterdam specializing in discourses of land use and access in Africa. Her current research explores stakeholder mediations of a foreign land deal in Kenya. She wrote Cultural Ideologies of Peace and Conflict: A Socio-Cognitive Study of Giryama Discourse (Kenya) (PhD dissertation VU Amsterdam, 2007).
Caroline Seagle is a PhD candidate at the VU University Amsterdam. An environmental anthropologist by training, she was a recipient in the Land Deal Politics Initiative (LDPI) small grants competition and published in the Journal of Peasant Studies special issue on Green Grabbing (2012).
Froukje Krijtenburg is a post-doctoral fellow affiliated to VU University Amsterdam specializing in discourses of land use and access in Africa. Her current research explores stakeholder mediations of a foreign land deal in Kenya. She wrote Cultural Ideologies of Peace and Conflict: A Socio-Cognitive Study of Giryama Discourse (Kenya) (PhD dissertation VU Amsterdam, 2007).
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