Birch-Thomsen, Torben
Beyond Territory and Scarcity
Quentin Gausset is Associate Professor at the Institute of Anthropology in the University of Copenhagen. He defended his PhD on the negotiation of identity in Central Cameroon at the Free University of Brussels. Since then he has worked on AIDS prevention in Zambia, and on the socio-cultural aspects of natural resource management in various interdisciplinary projects in Burkina Faso, Tanzania, southern Africa and Malaysia. Michael A. Whyte is Associate Professor at the Institute of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen. He has carried out long-term field research in eastern Uganda and western Kenya on issues including kinship, food security, HIV/AIDS and agricultural and economic change. He collaborates with Danish and Ugandan colleagues on the long-term Tororo Community Health project.
Torben Birch-Thomsen is Associate Professor at the Institute of Geography, University of Copenhagen, from which he also holds a PhD. His field of research is the environmental and socio-economic effects of land-use intensification (in particular in relation to the introduction of new technologies) in farming systems, and more generally the relationship between changing livelihood strategies and natural resource management. He has research experience of disciplinary as well as interdisciplinary fieldwork in Tanzania, Zambia, South Africa and Swaziland.
Keywords: Resources management, environmentel degradation, natural resources, conflicts, boundaries, living conditions, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Dmocratic Republic of the Congo, Ghana, Lesotho, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sudan
- Editor
- Birch-Thomsen, Torben
- Gausset, Quentin
- Whyte, Michael
- Publisher
- The Nordic Africa Institute
- Publication year
- 2005
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Page amount
- 218 pages
- Category
- Society
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 91-7106-540-7