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Large-scale land deals in Sierra Leone at the intersection of gender and lineage

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There is wide engagement with large-scale land deals in sub-Saharan Africa, particularly from the perspectives of development and international political economy. Recently, scholars have increasingly pointed to a gendered lacuna in this literature. Engagement with gender tends to focus on potential differential impacts for men and women, and it also flags the need for more detailed empirical research of specific land deals. This paper draws from ethnographic data collected in Northern Sierra Leone to support the claim that the impacts of land deals are highly gendered, but it also argues that lineage in a land-owning family and patronage intersect with these gendered impacts. This data supports my claim that analysis of land deals should start from an understanding of the context-dependent, complex arrays of power and marginality. Such a starting point allows for a wider and ‘messier’ range of impacts and experiences to emerge.

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  • Caitlin Ryan, 2018. "Large-scale land deals in Sierra Leone at the intersection of gender and lineage," Third World Quarterly, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 39(1), pages 189-206, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:ctwqxx:v:39:y:2018:i:1:p:189-206
    DOI: 10.1080/01436597.2017.1350099
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    1. Hennings, Anne, 2019. "Women in land struggles: The implications of female activism and emotional resistance for gender equity," GLOCON Working Paper Series 9, Freie Universität Berlin, Junior Research Group "Global Change – Local Conflicts?" (GLOCON).
    2. Jules Bakker & Caitlin Ryan, 2021. "The company is here to do goodness to us: Imaginaries of development, whiteness, and patronage in Sierra Leone's agribusiness investment deals," Environment and Planning A, , vol. 53(8), pages 1935-1951, November.
    3. Atuoye, Kilian Nasung & Luginaah, Isaac & Hambati, Herbert & Campbell, Gwyn, 2019. "Politics, economics, how about our health? Impacts of large-scale land acquisitions on therapeutic spaces and wellbeing in coastal Tanzania," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 220(C), pages 283-291.
    4. Conteh, Felix Marco & Maconachie, Roy, 2019. "Spaces for contestation: The politics of community development agreements in Sierra Leone," Resources Policy, Elsevier, vol. 61(C), pages 231-240.

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