Lueong The Forest People without a Forest

Development Paradoxes, Belonging and Participation of the Baka in East Cameroon
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-78533-381-1
Verlag: Berghahn
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 218 Seiten, Mobipocket Unencrypted

Development interventions often generate contradictions around questions of who benefits from development and which communities are targeted for intervention. This book examines how the Baka, who live in Eastern Cameroon, assert forms of belonging in order to participate in development interventions, and how community life is shaped and reshaped through these interventions. Often referred to as 'forest people', the Baka have witnessed many recent development interventions that include competing and contradictory policies such as 'civilize', assimilate and integrate the Baka into 'full citizenship', conserve the forest and wildlife resources, and preserve indigenous cultures at the verge of extinction.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lueong, Glory M.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Indigene Völker
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Politische Ethnologie, Recht, Organisation, Identität
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Soziale & wirtschaftliche Auswirkungen von Umweltfaktoren

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures

List of Acronyms

Preface

Introduction

 

Chapter 1. Pygmies amidst 'development' practices in Cameroon

Chapter 2. Claims to Belonging: A confrontation of two versions of belonging in East Cameroon

Chapter 3. Reconstructing 'rootedness in the soil' to authenticate belonging to the roadsides

Chapter 4. Internal differentiation and inequality among the Baka

Chapter 5. Development participation among the Baka in the East Region of Cameroon

Conclusion

Appendix

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Lueong, Glory M.
Glory M. Lueong is a senior fellow of the African Good Governance Network of the German Academic Exchange Service, where she works on issues of participatory natural resource governance. She holds a PhD in Sociology of Development from the University of Giessen. Her postdoctoral work is funded by the Wenner-Gren Foundation.