The Forest People without a Forest : : Development Paradoxes, Belonging and Participation of the Baka in East Cameroon / / Glory M. Lueong.

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...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2016
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Place / Publishing House:New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2016]
©2016
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (218 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Figures and Tables
  • Acronyms
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1 Pygmies amid ‘Development’ Practices in Cameroon
  • Chapter 2 Claims to Belonging: Two Conflicting Versions of Belonging in the East Region of 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