A Zoomers
Biographic Data
| ID | 37022 |
|---|---|
| NAME | A Zoomers |
| GIVEN NAMES | A |
| FAMILY NAME | Zoomers |
| SIGNATURE | ZOOMERS A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Utrecht University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6216-9907 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 47 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 683 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 47 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Reproducing Operational Landscapes: The Rock Mining for Indonesia's New Capital City
Indonesia's new capital city is designed to become a green and sustainable city. In this article, we examine the (un)sustainability of the process through which the city is coming into being. Using the sociospatial theory of planetary urbanization, we trace the dialectical relationship between the new city and sites beyond it to show how bringing a sustainable city into being in East Kalimantan requires other sites to become unsustainable. Throug…
Kenyan agri-businesswomen including small farmers in the value chain: Are they “agents of change”
Purpose Development organizations expect agri-businesswomen to act as “agents of change” in development by including small farmers in the value chain, especially women, and in doing so, contribute to the SDGs. By empirically studying how Kenyan agri-businesswomen do this and how small farmers perceive the impact, this article examines whether they are fulfilling these expectations. Design/methodology/approach Inspired by feminist standpoint theor…
Seven reasons why climate-induced land grabbing requires significant changes in land governance
Epilogue: Chicken or Egg? The Role of Newcomer Migrants in the Revitalization of ‘Left-Behind’ Areas
This contribution questions the common assumptions and practices concerning the hosting of newcomers in depopulated, remote and disinvested places in order to revitalize these places. While newcomers can contribute to new socioeconomic vitality in marginalised areas, they should not be taken as the only or main solution. Drawing on the debate surrounding the migration–development nexus, which has mainly been applied in global South contexts, I ad…
More thanjedug-jedug: Dynamics of discontent with tourist activity in Prawirotaman, Yogyakarta
Residents of Kampung Prawirotaman, Yogyakarta, Indonesia respond differently to night-time tourist activity. This historic batik kampung was transformed into an international tourist destination, sowing resident discontent over traffic, anti-social behaviour and noise. Conflict with religious values also features in this dynamic. Observations and in-depth interviews with residents, artists, and hotel/café owners in Prawirotaman and surrounding Is…
Can the Dragon Make the Lion Breathe Fire? The Links of Chinese Entrepreneurs in the Addis Ababa Economy
China’s increasing role in many African economies has given rise to discussions about the drivers of these economic relations and the benefits that Africa can reap. This article, based on field work carried out in Addis Ababa (Ethiopia), aims to contribute to this discussion by shedding light on a group that is often overlooked: the Chinese small entrepreneurs. Our investigation of five specific economic linkages shows how Chinese entrepreneurs m…
Land Loss with Compensation: What Are the Determinants of Income Among Households in Central Vietnam
The purpose of this study is to investigate the determinants of household income following the loss of land owing to urban expansion in central Vietnam. Using data mainly from household surveys in the peri-urban areas of Hue city, the regression model indicates that demographic factors and livelihood strategy choices have important impacts on household income; financial compensation and support packages do not appear to be strong determinants of …
On whose land is the city to be built? Farmers, donors and the urban land question in Beira city, Mozambique
A new era of global interventionism in African cities is emerging, the implications of which for existing claims to urban space are poorly understood. This is particularly true for the claims of farmers. Despite being a ubiquitous feature of many African cities, urban agriculture broadly exists in a conceptual limbo between rurality and urbanity, largely invisible to urban governance and substantive scholarship. Based on the case of Beira, Mozamb…
The commodification of social relationships in agriculture: Evidence from northern Ethiopia
A Community Management Plus Model for the Governance of Rural Drinking Water Systems: A Comparative Case Study of Pond Sand Filter Systems in Bangladesh
Rural drinking water systems (RDWS) in Bangladesh and elsewhere fail more often than we would want. In an attempt to further understanding what this support could look like we in particular zoom in on the role of public agencies. We ask, (i) what conditions explain variation in collective action among the end-users of an RDWS? and, (ii) what conditions explain variation in collaboration between RDWS end-users and a public agency? We lean on conce…
How can NGOs support collective action among the users of rural drinking water systems? A case study of Managed Aquifer Recharge (MAR) systems in Bangladesh
Plantations are everywhere! between infrastructural violence and inclusive development
Travelling without a helmet: Tourists' vulnerabilities and responses to disasters in Indonesia
Tourists are particularly vulnerable when natural disasters occur in regions that they are visiting. It is assumed that they lack awareness and understanding of the actions that they need to take in such circumstances. This study examines the responses of tourists in times of disaster, building on empirical data collected through large‐scale surveys conducted in Bali and Yogyakarta, Indonesia, in 2015. Both are important tourist destinations in t…
Failed promises: Governance regimes and conflict transformation related to Jatropha cultivation in Ethiopia
Tufa, F. A., A. Amsalu, and E. Zoomers. 2018. Failed promises: governance regimes and conflict transformation related to Jatropha cultivation in Ethiopia. Ecology and Society 23(4):26. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-10486-230426
Compulsory land acquisition for urban expansion: Livelihood reconstruction after land loss in Hue’s peri-urban areas, Central Vietnam
Land acquisition for urbanisation in Vietnam has become a hot topic, attracting attention not only from land administrators, but also from the media and politicians. This paper draws on the case of Hue to investigate how farmers reconstruct their livelihoods after land loss. The findings indicate that the majority of people are able to reconstruct their livelihoods with better living conditions. Besides the employment opportunities derived from a…
The Rush for Land in an Urbanizing World: From Land Grabbing Toward Developing Safe, Resilient, and Sustainable Cities and Landscapes
Unpacking Indonesia’s independent oil palm smallholders: An actor-disaggregated approach to identifying environmental and social performance challenges
Processes of globalization have generated new opportunities for smallholders to participate in profitable global agro-commodity markets. This participation however is increasingly being shaped by differentiated capabilities to comply with emerging public and private quality and safety standards. The dynamics within Indonesia’s oil palm sector illustrate well the types of competitive challenges smallholders face in their integration into global ag…
Exploring under-utilised low carbon land resources from multiple perspectives: Case studies on regencies in Kalimantan
Addressing the impacts of large-scale land investments: Re-engaging with livelihood research
From land grabs to inclusive development
Local Development in the Context of Global Migration and the Global Land Rush: The Need for a Conceptual Update
This paper argues that global linkages, flows and circulations merit a more central place in theorization about local development. In particular, we make connections across two dominant types of global flows that shape our world tremendously: international migration and large-scale land investments. The paper compares the two hypes and underlines the similarities in their genealogy, rhetoric and push for good governance as a solution. It then map…
Natural resource privatisation in Sub-Saharan Africa and the challenges for inclusive green growth
In response to recent accumulation crises, the development community has begun to call for greater focus on 'inclusive green growth' (IGG). African governments have accordingly been encouraged to develop mechanisms to leverage private sector investments that are both inclusive of the poor and that contribute to the development of the green economy. Since natural resource endowment has long been the primary source of comparative advantage for most…
Between two hypes: Will “big data” help unravel blind spots in understanding the “global land rush?”
Co-management of Forests and Forest Land Under Decentralization Process in Central Vietnam
Agricultural land for urban development: The process of land conversion in Central Vietnam
Globalisation and the foreignisation of space: Seven Processes Driving the Current Global Land Grab
The current global land grab is causing radical changes in the use and ownership \nof land. The main process driving the land grab, or 'foreignisation of space', as \nhighlighted in the media and the emerging literature is the production of food and \nbiofuel for export in the aftermath of recent food and energy crises. However, \nthere are several other processes driving the land rush. In this article I argue that \nan analytical framework that …
Exploring the Frontier of Livelihoods Research
This article discusses the value of livelihoods studies and examines the obstacles which have prevented it from making a greater contribution to understanding the lives of poor people over the past decade. After examining the roots of the livelihoods approach, two major challenges are explored: the conceptualization of the problem of access, and how to achieve a better understanding of the mutual link between livelihood opportunities and decision…
The Rush for Land in an Urbanizing World: From Land Grabbing Toward Developing Safe, Resilient, and Sustainable Cities and Landscapes
Addressing the impacts of large-scale land investments: Re-engaging with livelihood research
Between two hypes: Will “big data” help unravel blind spots in understanding the “global land rush?”
Development geography at the crossroads of livelihood and globalisation
This paper explores new insights generated by livelihood research with respect to poverty problems in the world and how people deal with global challenges. Through the examination of the changing outlines of livelihood in the present era of globalisation, the authors unravel the fuzzy relationship between globalisation and local development from an actor point of view. First, the paper analyses the historical and theoretical context in which the …
Introduction: Translocal development, development corridors and development chains
This paper offers an introduction to this Special Issue of International Development Planning Review. It uses the concepts of translocal development, development corridors and development chains to secure a better grasp of what development means in the context of globalisation and how 'local development' needs to be refined. Rather than producing transnational communities and spaces, globalisation is resulting in translocal patterns of developmen…
Agricultural land for urban development: The process of land conversion in Central Vietnam
Unpacking Indonesia’s independent oil palm smallholders: An actor-disaggregated approach to identifying environmental and social performance challenges
Processes of globalization have generated new opportunities for smallholders to participate in profitable global agro-commodity markets. This participation however is increasingly being shaped by differentiated capabilities to comply with emerging public and private quality and safety standards. The dynamics within Indonesia’s oil palm sector illustrate well the types of competitive challenges smallholders face in their integration into global ag…
Seven reasons why climate-induced land grabbing requires significant changes in land governance
Compulsory land acquisition for urban expansion: Livelihood reconstruction after land loss in Hue’s peri-urban areas, Central Vietnam
Land acquisition for urbanisation in Vietnam has become a hot topic, attracting attention not only from land administrators, but also from the media and politicians. This paper draws on the case of Hue to investigate how farmers reconstruct their livelihoods after land loss. The findings indicate that the majority of people are able to reconstruct their livelihoods with better living conditions. Besides the employment opportunities derived from a…
Social mobility in the Central Andes of Peru and Bolivia: Towards a more dynamic and multi-local vision of poverty alleviation
This article aims to provide a better understanding of the way in which a dynamic and multi-local view of poverty can be integrated in development planning processes. Drawing on empirical research carried out in the department of Cusco in the Peruvian Andes and in the southern Andes of Bolivia, the article demonstrates the interdependence of rural and urban livelihoods. It discusses differences and continuities in social mobility among rural and …
Pro-Indigenous Reforms in Bolivia: Is there an Andean Way to Escape Poverty
Nowadays, the old assumption that indigenous peoples should give up their cultural practices and identities in order to assimilate and 'progress', has been replaced by a more flexible and dynamic perception of indigeneity. This article - based on fieldwork carried out in the southern part of the Bolivian Andes between 1995 and 2004 - offers a micro-level description of whatAndinidad, the Andean way of doing things, means for daily life. What are …
Elites, the Rural Masses and Land in Paraguay: The Subordination of the Rural Masses to the Ruling Class
Despite the fact that rural ownership and tenure relationships were very unfavourable to the majority when President Stroessner came to power, there was little or no peasant rebellion during his regime, and the rural masses were unable to force the government to improve their situation. This paper explains the lack of resistance by the rural poor in terms of the effectiveness of the repressive regime, which kept the poor quiet and either eliminat…
How can NGOs support collective action among the users of rural drinking water systems? A case study of Managed Aquifer Recharge (MAR) systems in Bangladesh
From land grabs to inclusive development
On whose land is the city to be built? Farmers, donors and the urban land question in Beira city, Mozambique
A new era of global interventionism in African cities is emerging, the implications of which for existing claims to urban space are poorly understood. This is particularly true for the claims of farmers. Despite being a ubiquitous feature of many African cities, urban agriculture broadly exists in a conceptual limbo between rurality and urbanity, largely invisible to urban governance and substantive scholarship. Based on the case of Beira, Mozamb…
Looking forward: Translocal development in practice
This paper discusses the concepts of translocal development, development corridors and development chains, based on the insights obtained in the preceding case studies. As intermediate theoretical concepts they provide a geographical framework for understanding local development in a context of globalisation. The implications for policy include the need to give more attention to the relational dimensions of local development, complementing territ…
More thanjedug-jedug: Dynamics of discontent with tourist activity in Prawirotaman, Yogyakarta
Residents of Kampung Prawirotaman, Yogyakarta, Indonesia respond differently to night-time tourist activity. This historic batik kampung was transformed into an international tourist destination, sowing resident discontent over traffic, anti-social behaviour and noise. Conflict with religious values also features in this dynamic. Observations and in-depth interviews with residents, artists, and hotel/café owners in Prawirotaman and surrounding Is…
The commodification of social relationships in agriculture: Evidence from northern Ethiopia
Land liberalisation and sustainable development in Latin America: Unravelling the land sales market of Santa Cruz, Bolivia
This article analyses the implications of land liberalisation for sustainable development. More specifically, an effort is made to clarify the functioning of land sales markets in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, and assess the potential of such markets to contribute to poverty alleviation, agricultural development and sustainable land use. It deals with such questions as: Who are the main land dealers, and how do they behave? What are the main patterns of s…
Plantations are everywhere! between infrastructural violence and inclusive development
Exploring under-utilised low carbon land resources from multiple perspectives: Case studies on regencies in Kalimantan
Local Development in the Context of Global Migration and the Global Land Rush: The Need for a Conceptual Update
This paper argues that global linkages, flows and circulations merit a more central place in theorization about local development. In particular, we make connections across two dominant types of global flows that shape our world tremendously: international migration and large-scale land investments. The paper compares the two hypes and underlines the similarities in their genealogy, rhetoric and push for good governance as a solution. It then map…
Natural resource privatisation in Sub-Saharan Africa and the challenges for inclusive green growth
In response to recent accumulation crises, the development community has begun to call for greater focus on 'inclusive green growth' (IGG). African governments have accordingly been encouraged to develop mechanisms to leverage private sector investments that are both inclusive of the poor and that contribute to the development of the green economy. Since natural resource endowment has long been the primary source of comparative advantage for most…
From Structural Push to Chain Migration: Notes on the Persistence of Migration to Ciudad Juarez, Mexico
Spatial differentiation in regional welfare is often assumed to be one of the most important explanatory factors in individual migration behaviour. By the weight of 'push' against 'pull', migrants walk in step with the unequal distribution of socio-economic opportunities. In the case of Ciudad Juarez [Mexico], these 'structural factors' only appear to have determined migration in its first stages; especially recently 'non-structural' factors seem…
Environmental Degradation in Latin America: The Example of Paraguay
Internal Colonisation as a Policy Instrument for Changing a Country's Rural System: The Example of Paraguay
A Decade of Integrated Rural Development Planning: An Assessment of Proderm Experiences in Cusco, Peru
Elites, the Rural Masses and Land in Paraguay: The Subordination of the Rural Masses to the Ruling Class
Despite the fact that rural ownership and tenure relationships were very unfavourable to the majority when President Stroessner came to power, there was little or no peasant rebellion during his regime, and the rural masses were unable to force the government to improve their situation. This paper explains the lack of resistance by the rural poor in terms of the effectiveness of the repressive regime, which kept the poor quiet and either eliminat…
Livelihood and Urban‐rural Rela Tions in Central Paraguay
This article illustrates the impact of rural‐urban relations on the livelihood strategy and income level of peasants by focusing on the question of whether small farmers within easy reach of a city are better off and/or have better prospects for improving their situation, than those living outside the urban sphere of influence. In order to answer this question, the Central Region of Paraguay has been chosen as a case study. The authors show that …
Rural Development Policy in Latin America: The Future of the Countryside
Land liberalisation and sustainable development in Latin America: Unravelling the land sales market of Santa Cruz, Bolivia
This article analyses the implications of land liberalisation for sustainable development. More specifically, an effort is made to clarify the functioning of land sales markets in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, and assess the potential of such markets to contribute to poverty alleviation, agricultural development and sustainable land use. It deals with such questions as: Who are the main land dealers, and how do they behave? What are the main patterns of s…
Development geography at the crossroads of livelihood and globalisation
This paper explores new insights generated by livelihood research with respect to poverty problems in the world and how people deal with global challenges. Through the examination of the changing outlines of livelihood in the present era of globalisation, the authors unravel the fuzzy relationship between globalisation and local development from an actor point of view. First, the paper analyses the historical and theoretical context in which the …
Three decades of rural development projects in Asia, Latin America, and Africa: Learning from successes and failures
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Exploring the Frontier of Livelihoods Research
This article discusses the value of livelihoods studies and examines the obstacles which have prevented it from making a greater contribution to understanding the lives of poor people over the past decade. After examining the roots of the livelihoods approach, two major challenges are explored: the conceptualization of the problem of access, and how to achieve a better understanding of the mutual link between livelihood opportunities and decision…
Pro-Indigenous Reforms in Bolivia: Is there an Andean Way to Escape Poverty
Nowadays, the old assumption that indigenous peoples should give up their cultural practices and identities in order to assimilate and 'progress', has been replaced by a more flexible and dynamic perception of indigeneity. This article - based on fieldwork carried out in the southern part of the Bolivian Andes between 1995 and 2004 - offers a micro-level description of whatAndinidad, the Andean way of doing things, means for daily life. What are …
Social mobility in the Central Andes of Peru and Bolivia: Towards a more dynamic and multi-local vision of poverty alleviation
This article aims to provide a better understanding of the way in which a dynamic and multi-local view of poverty can be integrated in development planning processes. Drawing on empirical research carried out in the department of Cusco in the Peruvian Andes and in the southern Andes of Bolivia, the article demonstrates the interdependence of rural and urban livelihoods. It discusses differences and continuities in social mobility among rural and …
Trans‐world: Debating the Place and Borders of Places in the Age of Transnationalism
In this introductory contribution to this special issue of TESG , we want to question the usual way of conceptualising places and borders in the debate about transnationalism. We argue, that in studies of transnationalism, on the one hand the idea of nation‐states as spatial containers is overcome, but on the other hand also reproduces the same spatial containers. Instead we suggest the use of the term ‘trans‐world’ to avoid any connotation sugge…
Europe’s Migration Agreements with Migrant‐Sending Countries in the Global South: A Critical Review
The past two decades have seen the steady emergence of various bilateral and multilateral migration agreements between Europe and migrant‐sending countries in the global South. This article provides a critical assessment of the way the EU – and individual countries such as Spain, France and Italy – have played active roles in reshaping old and developing new strategies for keeping migration under control while opening up new opportunities for “re…
Sodade di Nhos Terra: The development potential of return migration to Cape Verde
Cape Verde has traditionally been a country of out-migration: approximately half a million people live in Cape Verde, while an estimated half a million nationals live overseas. Now, however, the country is undergoing economic development and consolidating its democratic status, and this is encouraging people to return. This article presents an overview of the policies and institutional arrangements aimed at stimulating return migration. In it, we…
Globalisation and the foreignisation of space: Seven Processes Driving the Current Global Land Grab
The current global land grab is causing radical changes in the use and ownership \nof land. The main process driving the land grab, or 'foreignisation of space', as \nhighlighted in the media and the emerging literature is the production of food and \nbiofuel for export in the aftermath of recent food and energy crises. However, \nthere are several other processes driving the land rush. In this article I argue that \nan analytical framework that …
Looking forward: Translocal development in practice
This paper discusses the concepts of translocal development, development corridors and development chains, based on the insights obtained in the preceding case studies. As intermediate theoretical concepts they provide a geographical framework for understanding local development in a context of globalisation. The implications for policy include the need to give more attention to the relational dimensions of local development, complementing territ…
Introduction: Translocal development, development corridors and development chains
This paper offers an introduction to this Special Issue of International Development Planning Review. It uses the concepts of translocal development, development corridors and development chains to secure a better grasp of what development means in the context of globalisation and how 'local development' needs to be refined. Rather than producing transnational communities and spaces, globalisation is resulting in translocal patterns of developmen…
Does Migration Lead to Development? Or is it Contributing to a Global Divide
This article aims to show that the benefits of international migration (often presented as a ‘global flow’) very much depend on the positionality of the areas involved, as well as the regional particularities. It is argued that countries producing south-north migration or diasporic states are in a more favorable position to benefit from international migration than countries that are mainly involved in south-south migration. In addition, the oppo…
Migration as a Failure to Adapt? How Andean People Cope with Environmental Restrictions and Climate Variability
This article analyzes how people in the Bolivian Andes cope with environmental stress. Specifically, it examines the role environmental migration plays in how people cope with climate change. In the Andes, the climate is highly variable, forcing people to cope with extreme weather conditions that range from extreme droughts and intensive rain and floods to rising temperatures and unexpected frosts. When mobility takes place in such a context, it …
Reframing the Land Grab Debate: The Need to Broaden and Deepen the Agenda
This article does not present new evidence about the land rush, but reveals the urgent need of broadening the debate by including a few key issues that are so far neglected. Transnational land acquisitions are a logical outcome of globalisation and neoliberal policies resulting in processes of disembedding land from local societies. Control over land is decreasingly vested in territorially defined communities or societies, and increasingly dictat…
Co-management of Forests and Forest Land Under Decentralization Process in Central Vietnam
Agricultural land for urban development: The process of land conversion in Central Vietnam
Natural resource privatisation in Sub-Saharan Africa and the challenges for inclusive green growth
In response to recent accumulation crises, the development community has begun to call for greater focus on 'inclusive green growth' (IGG). African governments have accordingly been encouraged to develop mechanisms to leverage private sector investments that are both inclusive of the poor and that contribute to the development of the green economy. Since natural resource endowment has long been the primary source of comparative advantage for most…
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