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

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2016]Copyright date: ©2016Description: 1 online resource (218 p.)Content type:
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  • 9781785333804
  • 9781785333811
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  • 967.1100496361 23
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  • online - DeGruyter
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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
Summary: 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.
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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

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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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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