Inverting the Moral Economy: the Case of Land Acquisitions for Forest Plantations in Tanzania

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dc.contributor.authorOlwig, M. F.
dc.contributor.authorNoe, Christine
dc.contributor.authorKangalawe, R.
dc.contributor.authorLuoga, E.
dc.date.accessioned2016-04-22T11:35:29Z
dc.date.available2016-04-22T11:35:29Z
dc.date.issued2015
dc.descriptionFull text can be accessed at http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01436597.2015.1078231en_US
dc.description.abstractGovernments, donors and investors often promote land acquisitions for forest plantations as global climate change mitigation via carbon sequestration. Investors’ forestry thereby becomes part of a global moral economy imaginary. Using examples from Tanzania we critically examine the global moral economy’s narrative foundation, which presents trees as axiomatically ‘green’, ‘idle’ land as waste and economic investments as benefiting the relevant communities. In this way the traditional supposition of the moral economy as invoked by the economic underclass to maintain the basis of their subsistence is inverted and subverted, at a potentially serious cost to the subjects of such land acquisition.en_US
dc.identifier.citationOlwig, M.F., Noe, C., Kangalawe, R. and Luoga, E., 2015. Inverting the moral economy: the case of land acquisitions for forest plantations in Tanzania. Third World Quarterly, 36(12), pp.2316-2336.en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/01436597.2015.1078231
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/1654
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherTaylor & Francis Groupen_US
dc.subjectLand acquisitionsen_US
dc.subjectMoral economyen_US
dc.subjectCarbon forestryen_US
dc.subjectIdle landen_US
dc.subjectSustainable investmentsen_US
dc.subjectTanzaniaen_US
dc.titleInverting the Moral Economy: the Case of Land Acquisitions for Forest Plantations in Tanzaniaen_US
dc.typeJournal Articleen_US
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