Displacement economies in Africa : : paradoxes of crisis and creativity / / edited by Amanda Hammar.

• Superior document: Africa now
• TeilnehmendeR: Hammar, Amanda,
• Place / Publishing House: London, England : : Zed Books,, 2014.; [London, England] : : Bloomsbury Publishing,, 2021
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Africa now (Zed Books)
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (272 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

This highly original volume, based on empirical case studies from across sub-Saharan Africa, provides fresh insights into the unexpected changes, complex agency and persistent dynamism entailed in displacement processes. In doing so, it explores the diversity of actors, strategies and practices that reshape the world in the face (and chronic aftermath) of dramatic moments of violent dislocation and/or enclosure. An important contribution to a topic of growing scholarly and policy interest.

Table of Contents

Figure and tables -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Displacement economies: paradoxes of crisis and creativity in Africa / Amanda Hammar -- Part I. Economies of rupture and repositioning -- Chapter 2. Securing livelihoods: economic practice in the Darfur-Chad borderlands / Andrea Behrends -- Chapter 3. Contested spaces, new opportunities: displacement, return and the rural economy in Casamance, Senegal / Martin Evans -- Chapter 4. The paradoxes of class: crisis, displacement and repositioning in post-2000 Zimbabwe / Amanda Hammar -- Part II. Reshaping economic sectors, markets and investment -- Chapter 5. Rapid adaptations to change and displacements in the Lundas (Angola) / Cristina Udelsmann Rodrigues -- Chapter 6. Somali displacements and shifting markets: camel milk in Nairobi's Eastleigh Estate / Hannah Elliott -- Chapter 7. Diaspora returnees in Somaliland's displacement economy / Peter Hansen -- Chapter 8. Financial flows and secrecy jurisdictions in times of crisis: relocating assets in Zimbabwe's displacement economy / Sarah Bracking -- Part III. Confinement and economies of loss and hope -- Chapter 9. The IDP economy in northern Uganda: a prisoners' economy? / Morten Bøås and Ingunn Bjørkhaug -- Chapter 10. 'No move to make': the Zimbabwe crisis, displacement-in-place and the erosion of 'proper places' / Jeremy Jones -- Chapter 11. Captured lives: the precarious space of youth displacement in eastern DRC / Timothy Raeymaekers -- About the contributors -- Index -- About Zed Books.