Sara Berry
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 137647 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Sara Berry |
| PRENOMES | Sara |
| SOBRENOME | Berry |
| ASSINATURA | BERRY S |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Johns Hopkins University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2146-2816 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 66 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 1045 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 66 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1974 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 14 |
Fathers Work for Their Sons
Acting Like an Owner
Using court records of legal disputes over transfers of land, this article explores the way transfers of landed property have impacted social relationships and the governance of land rights in Ghana in the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. As urbanization, commercial agriculture, and natural resource extraction pushed up the value of land, disputes over land ownership have multiplied. In adjudicating such disputes, courts are often conf…
A Death in the Family
An inheritance dispute heard before one of the chiefs’ courts established in Asante under indirect rule illustrates the multivalent, dynamic character of social institutions at a time of economic and political transition. Litigated in 1951, the dispute raised questions about the meaning of ‘family’ and ‘belonging’, and their significance for people's access to wealth and their obligations to one another. Played out against a backdrop of potential…
Entrepreneurial Labour
Entrepreneurship – defined here as the process of managing, and often launching, an income-generating entity – is often depicted as a combination of personal attributes that enable certain individuals to perceive and act on economic opportunities more quickly and effectively than others do, and economic conditions in which economic opportunities are abundant and widely accessible. The present chapter seeks to shift the focus from innovation and i…
Sixteen Entrepreneurial Labour
Kathryn M. de Luna. Collecting Food, Cultivating People
Skillfully combining the findings of archaeologists, climate and ecological historians, and historical linguists with her own linguistic and ethnographic research, Kathryn M. de Luna constructs a “deep history” of innovation, borrowing and inventive adaptation by Botatwe-speaking people—ancestors of today’s Tonga, subjects of Elizabeth Colson’s celebrated ethnographic corpus—in what is now central and southern Zambia. Centering her analysis on th…
Migrant cocoa farmers of southern Ghana
A self-described field economist, Polly Hill combined conventional economic surveys with ethnographic inquiries to collect information on the economic activities and circumstances of West African f
Struggles over Land and Authority in Africa
This article reviews major changes in policies and practices of land allocation and use in sub-Saharan Africa since ca 1990, using two comparative case studies to illustrate their implications for relations between local and national authority. One case contrasts Ghana, where intense local conflicts over land and authority did not translate into political conflict at the national level, with Côte d'Ivoire, where they did. The other compares polit…
Questions of Ownership
Using a case study of a rural town in the Ashanti Region, this article explores transformations in enterprise, property relations and informal governance that have occurred since Ghana embarked on a period of neo-liberal economic and political restructuring in the mid-1980s. Rather than a linear move away from state-controlled markets and authoritarian rule toward privatization and democratic decentralization, Ghana has witnessed a proliferation …
Colonial Meltdown
Reviewed by: Colonial Meltdown: Northern Nigeria in the Great Depression Sara Berry Colonial Meltdown: Northern Nigeria in the Great Depression By Moses E. Ochonu. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2009. Colonial Meltdown investigates the impact of the global economic depression of the 1930s on the people of Northern Nigeria. Unlike much of the historical literature on colonial Northern Nigeria, Ochonu’s study is not centered on the area formerly co…
Identity Economics
Building for the Future? Investment, Land Reform and the Contingencies of Ownership in Contemporary Ghana
Property, Authority and Citizenship
In the contemporary African context of rising competition and anxiety over access to land, neoliberal policy interventions designed to clarify property rights, broaden political participation and increase official accountability have frequently provoked rather than alleviated social and political conflict. Comparing case histories of local struggles over land and authority in selected rural areas in Ghana, Côte d'Ivoire and Bénin, this paper argu…
Marginal Gains, Market Values, and History
Inspired by Jane Guyer's insights inMarginal Gains(2004) into the distinctive logics and performative repertoires that animate economic life in Africa, this article offers a few reflections on the implications of African economic dynamics for conceptual debates about economic and social meanings of value. In particular, it is suggested that market values may be understood not simply as momentary quantitative indicators or measurements of opportun…
Privatization and the politics of belonging in West Africa
Natives” and “Strangers” on the Outskirts of Kumasi
In their introduction to The fate of the tree , a collection of essays on “planning and managing the development of Kumasi,” Adarkwa and Post note that while Ghanaians have “increasingly [been] drawn into the world market” in recent years, the costs and benefits have been unequally
On History and Global Capital
Keith Hart,The Hit Man's Dilemma or Business, Personal, and Impersonal. Chicago: Prickly Paradigm Press, 2005, 126 pp. The Hit Man's Dilemma is a 112 page essay on "the historical relationship between human personality and impersonal society" (4) in western (now global) capitalist society. Opening with an unnamed (cinematic) hitman's final words to his intended victim—"don't take this personal, it's just business"—Hart reflects on the problem of …
Power in Ghana from Early Colonial Times to the 1990s
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Power in Ghana From Early Colonial Times to the 1990s
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Asante Identities
Debating the Land Question in Africa
In February 2000, twenty years after their victories brought Rhodesia's ruling white regime to the conference table, veterans of Zimbabwe's war of liberation began to occupy some of the large privately owned commercial farms that controlled Zimbabwe's most valuable land. During the next few weeks, thousands of people followed suit: by May, nearly a third of the country's large-scale commercial farms had been seized (New York Times, 27 May 2000; M…
Afterword
The four papers in this collection bring a varied set of perspectives as well as examples to bear on several common themes. The authors describe continuities and changes in colonial policies toward Africans' access to and use of land and natural resources and discuss some of the sources of knowledge that informed colonial officials' thinking about African land use practices. Implicitly if not directly, each poses the question of whether colonial …
Unsettled Accounts
In a recent study, Fred Cooper argues that strikes and other forms of labor protest had a clarifying effect on official thinking not only about labor policies but also about the aims and, ultimately, the viability of colonial rule. As Africans went on strike, from the Copperbelt to the docks of Mombasa and the Gold Coast Railway, to demand better wages and working conditions, colonial administrators first envisioned and then embraced the idea of …
Tomatoes, land and hearsay
After a decade of advocating market-based solutions to poverty and underdevelopment in sub-Saharan Africa, policy analysts have begun to reexamine the actual and potential role of African states and institutions in promoting sustainable development. While stressing the importance of flexibility, in policies and institutions, much of this debate rests on ahistorical approaches to understanding African institutions which portray them as inflexible …
Reinventing the Local? Privatization, Decentralization and the Politics of Resource Management
This paper re-examines the common argument that defi ning and securing local ownership of resources and social activities is the key to sustainable development and democratization in contemporary Africa. In the process of deciding who and what are local, administrators and policy makers often provoke debates and struggles that lead to confl ict rather than cooperation, and complicate rather than clarify practices of resource management and govern…
No Condition Is Permanent
Social institutions and access to resources
Opening ParagraphFor over a decade African economies have been plagued by recurrent food shortages, economic decline and growing disparities between the living standards of rich and poor. To a large extent food shortages and rural impoverishment may be attributed to external shocks-world recession, oil price shocks, deteriorating terms of trade and mounting debt service obligations-compounded in the 1970s and early 1980s by drought and war. In ad…
Hegemony on a shoestring
In their efforts to govern African colonies through traditional rulers and customary law, British officials founded colonial administration on contested terrain. By committing themselves to uphold 'native law and custom' colonial officials linked the definition of Africans' legal rights with their social identities, which were, in turn, subject to conflicting interpretations. As agricultural growth and commercialisation intensified demand for lan…
Debating the Land Question in Africa
In February 2000, twenty years after their victories brought Rhodesia's ruling white regime to the conference table, veterans of Zimbabwe's war of liberation began to occupy some of the large privately owned commercial farms that controlled Zimbabwe's most valuable land. During the next few weeks, thousands of people followed suit: by May, nearly a third of the country's large-scale commercial farms had been seized (New York Times, 27 May 2000; M…
Property, Authority and Citizenship
In the contemporary African context of rising competition and anxiety over access to land, neoliberal policy interventions designed to clarify property rights, broaden political participation and increase official accountability have frequently provoked rather than alleviated social and political conflict. Comparing case histories of local struggles over land and authority in selected rural areas in Ghana, Côte d'Ivoire and Bénin, this paper argu…
Tomatoes, land and hearsay
After a decade of advocating market-based solutions to poverty and underdevelopment in sub-Saharan Africa, policy analysts have begun to reexamine the actual and potential role of African states and institutions in promoting sustainable development. While stressing the importance of flexibility, in policies and institutions, much of this debate rests on ahistorical approaches to understanding African institutions which portray them as inflexible …
Cutting Down Trees
Introduction: In & Out of Context: The Problems of a R e-Study - The Colonial Construction of Knowledge: History & Anthropology - The Colonial Construction of Knowledg e: Ecology & Agriculture - Relishing Porridge: The Gen der Politics of Food - Cultivators & Colonial Officers : Food Supply and the Politics of Marketing - Developing M en: The Creation of the Progressive Farmer - Migration &am p Marriage - Working for Salt: Nutrition in the 1980s …
Fathers Work for Their Sons
The Food Crisis and Agrarian Change in Africa
Recent assessments of the performance and prospects of African economies portray a deepening economic crisis centered on the problem of food supplies. During the last ten years, a rapidly rising number of Africans have had an increasingly difficult time getting enough to eat. By all accounts, domestic food supplies are falling further and further behind domestic needs; both governments and consumers face serious problems in procuring the kinds an…
Struggles over Land and Authority in Africa
This article reviews major changes in policies and practices of land allocation and use in sub-Saharan Africa since ca 1990, using two comparative case studies to illustrate their implications for relations between local and national authority. One case contrasts Ghana, where intense local conflicts over land and authority did not translate into political conflict at the national level, with Côte d'Ivoire, where they did. The other compares polit…
Questions of Ownership
Using a case study of a rural town in the Ashanti Region, this article explores transformations in enterprise, property relations and informal governance that have occurred since Ghana embarked on a period of neo-liberal economic and political restructuring in the mid-1980s. Rather than a linear move away from state-controlled markets and authoritarian rule toward privatization and democratic decentralization, Ghana has witnessed a proliferation …
Building for the Future? Investment, Land Reform and the Contingencies of Ownership in Contemporary Ghana
Asante Identities
Caravans of Kola
Fathers Work for Their Sons
Marginal Gains, Market Values, and History
Inspired by Jane Guyer's insights inMarginal Gains(2004) into the distinctive logics and performative repertoires that animate economic life in Africa, this article offers a few reflections on the implications of African economic dynamics for conceptual debates about economic and social meanings of value. In particular, it is suggested that market values may be understood not simply as momentary quantitative indicators or measurements of opportun…
Unsettled Accounts
In a recent study, Fred Cooper argues that strikes and other forms of labor protest had a clarifying effect on official thinking not only about labor policies but also about the aims and, ultimately, the viability of colonial rule. As Africans went on strike, from the Copperbelt to the docks of Mombasa and the Gold Coast Railway, to demand better wages and working conditions, colonial administrators first envisioned and then embraced the idea of …
Access, control and use of resources in African agriculture
Recent literature on the agrarian crisis in Africa questions the adequacy of a technocratic approach to explaining and alleviating the crisis. Bringing about sustained growth in African agricultural output and rural incomes will require more than a technological breakthrough. Farmers' capacity to employ improved technology and to increase output and investment depends on their access to productive resources-broadly defined to include not only hum…
Labour and Politics in Nigeria
Afterword
The four papers in this collection bring a varied set of perspectives as well as examples to bear on several common themes. The authors describe continuities and changes in colonial policies toward Africans' access to and use of land and natural resources and discuss some of the sources of knowledge that informed colonial officials' thinking about African land use practices. Implicitly if not directly, each poses the question of whether colonial …
Understanding agricultural policy in Africa
Francophone Sub-Saharan Africa, 1880-1985
The Concept of Innovation and the History of Cocoa Farming in Western Nigeria
The history of cocoa production in Western Nigeria is an example of a successful innovation in the Schumpeterian sense of the term—a new productive activity which, when adopted by a number of producers, leads to economic growth and structural change within a given institutional and social context. Cocoa growing spread in Western Nigeria through the efforts of migrant farmers, many of whom relied on traditional, non-economic institutions, such as …
A Death in the Family
An inheritance dispute heard before one of the chiefs’ courts established in Asante under indirect rule illustrates the multivalent, dynamic character of social institutions at a time of economic and political transition. Litigated in 1951, the dispute raised questions about the meaning of ‘family’ and ‘belonging’, and their significance for people's access to wealth and their obligations to one another. Played out against a backdrop of potential…
Migrant cocoa farmers of southern Ghana
A self-described field economist, Polly Hill combined conventional economic surveys with ethnographic inquiries to collect information on the economic activities and circumstances of West African f
Labour and Politics in Nigeria
The Concept of Innovation and the History of Cocoa Farming in Western Nigeria
The history of cocoa production in Western Nigeria is an example of a successful innovation in the Schumpeterian sense of the term—a new productive activity which, when adopted by a number of producers, leads to economic growth and structural change within a given institutional and social context. Cocoa growing spread in Western Nigeria through the efforts of migrant farmers, many of whom relied on traditional, non-economic institutions, such as …
Planning for Economic Development in a Federal State
Supply response reconsidered
This essay uses time‐series data on cocoa plantings in Western Nigeria to re‐examine some popular conclusions about the price responsiveness of farmers in underdeveloped economies. Annual variations in the rate of planting were found to be more closely related to farmers’ income from cocoa sales than to current price. Qualitative evidence suggests that longer‐term trends in cocoa plantings were also influenced by changing opportunity costs and by…
Cocoa, Custom, and Socio-Economic Change in Rural Western Nigeria
Cocoa, Custom and Socio-Economic Change in Rural Western Nigeria
Cocoa, Custom and Socio-Economic Change in Rural Western Nigeria
West African Farmers and Development
African Capitalism
The Imperial Impact
Inequality and Underdevelopment in Africa
The Labor Process and Modes of Production in Africa
Peasants in Africa
Choice, Class and Conflict
Capital and Labour in the Nigerian Tin Mines
Caravans of Kola
Nigeria since 1970
The Food Crisis and Agrarian Change in Africa
Recent assessments of the performance and prospects of African economies portray a deepening economic crisis centered on the problem of food supplies. During the last ten years, a rapidly rising number of Africans have had an increasingly difficult time getting enough to eat. By all accounts, domestic food supplies are falling further and further behind domestic needs; both governments and consumers face serious problems in procuring the kinds an…
Oil and the Disappearing Peasantry
The Political Economy of West African Agriculture
Fathers Work for Their Sons
Fathers Work for Their Sons
Fathers Work for Their Sons
Fathers Work for Their Sons
The Dynamics of Productive Relationships
In recent years empirical enquiry has indicated that share contracts in agriculture often take the form of complex but relatively efficient and equitable working relationships among small farmers, allowing them to assemble the resources to secure subsistence and to develop and expand agricultural production when the vagaries of weather, market and policy are favourable. This book examines four African cases - Ghana, Sudan, Lesotho and Senegambia …
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