Kristina Lanz
Biographic Data
| ID | 218219 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kristina Lanz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kristina |
| FAMILY NAME | Lanz |
| SIGNATURE | LANZ K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bern |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The poverty of neoliberalized feminism: Gender equality in a 'best practice' large-scale land investment in Ghana
Feminist ideas have entered the neoliberal agricultural development agenda, including increasingly ubiquitous public-private partnerships and businesses. Rhetorically committed to gender equality, these new development actors have reduced equality to a matter of numbers, seeking to include women in their projects while disregarding intersectionally gendered power relations that suffuse any development context. This article seeks to illustrate how…
Land Grabbing, the State and Chiefs: The Politics of Extending Commercial Agriculture in Ghana
Since 2006, Ghana has experienced a wave of large-scale land acquisitions (LSLAs) for agricultural purposes. Although these acquisitions are enabled by favourable agricultural and investment policies, investors nevertheless generally negotiate directly with traditional authorities, often bypassing state authorities in the acquisition process. The strength of customary authorities is often attributed to the weakness of the state. Considering histo…
The Great African Land Grab: Agricultural investments and the global food system
Journal Article The Great African Land Grab: Agricultural investments and the global food system Get access The Great African Land Grab: Agricultural investments and the global food system, by Lorenzo Cotula. London and New York, NY: Zed Books in association with the International African Institute, Royal African Association and World Peace Foundation, 2013. x + 238 pp. £12.99 (paperback). ISBN 978 1 78032 420 3. Kristina Lanz Kristina Lanz Unive…
The poverty of neoliberalized feminism: Gender equality in a 'best practice' large-scale land investment in Ghana
Feminist ideas have entered the neoliberal agricultural development agenda, including increasingly ubiquitous public-private partnerships and businesses. Rhetorically committed to gender equality, these new development actors have reduced equality to a matter of numbers, seeking to include women in their projects while disregarding intersectionally gendered power relations that suffuse any development context. This article seeks to illustrate how…
Land Grabbing, the State and Chiefs: The Politics of Extending Commercial Agriculture in Ghana
Since 2006, Ghana has experienced a wave of large-scale land acquisitions (LSLAs) for agricultural purposes. Although these acquisitions are enabled by favourable agricultural and investment policies, investors nevertheless generally negotiate directly with traditional authorities, often bypassing state authorities in the acquisition process. The strength of customary authorities is often attributed to the weakness of the state. Considering histo…
The Great African Land Grab: Agricultural investments and the global food system
Journal Article The Great African Land Grab: Agricultural investments and the global food system Get access The Great African Land Grab: Agricultural investments and the global food system, by Lorenzo Cotula. London and New York, NY: Zed Books in association with the International African Institute, Royal African Association and World Peace Foundation, 2013. x + 238 pp. £12.99 (paperback). ISBN 978 1 78032 420 3. Kristina Lanz Kristina Lanz Unive…
Land Grabbing, the State and Chiefs: The Politics of Extending Commercial Agriculture in Ghana
Since 2006, Ghana has experienced a wave of large-scale land acquisitions (LSLAs) for agricultural purposes. Although these acquisitions are enabled by favourable agricultural and investment policies, investors nevertheless generally negotiate directly with traditional authorities, often bypassing state authorities in the acquisition process. The strength of customary authorities is often attributed to the weakness of the state. Considering histo…
The poverty of neoliberalized feminism: Gender equality in a 'best practice' large-scale land investment in Ghana
Feminist ideas have entered the neoliberal agricultural development agenda, including increasingly ubiquitous public-private partnerships and businesses. Rhetorically committed to gender equality, these new development actors have reduced equality to a matter of numbers, seeking to include women in their projects while disregarding intersectionally gendered power relations that suffuse any development context. This article seeks to illustrate how…
Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (3 works) · Land Rights and Reforms (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Agriculture (2 works) · Economics (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Archaeology (1 works) · Business (1 works) · Context (archaeology (1 works)