Handbook of Translocal Development and Global Mobilities

Edited by Annelies Zoomers, Professor of International Development Studies, Utrecht University, Maggi Leung, Professor, Department of Geography, Planning and International Development Studies, University of Amsterdam, Kei Otsuki and Guus Van Westen, Associate Professors, Department of Human Geography and Planning, Utrecht University, the Netherlands

Contents:

1 Introduction to the Handbook of Translocal Development and
Global Mobilities 1
Guus van Westen, Maggi Leung, Kei Otsuki and Annelies Zoomers

PART I TRANSLOCAL DEVELOPMENT IN MIGRATORY
LANDSCAPES
2 Moving far away to stay: translocal livelihoods, labour
migration corridors and mobility in rural Nicaragua 13
Nanneke Winters, Griet Steel and Carlos Sosa
3 Environmentally related migration in the digital age: the case
of Bangladesh 27
Ingrid Boas
4 Development against migration: investments, partnerships and
counter-tactics in the West African–European migration industry 42
Joris Schapendonk

PART II TRANSLOCAL DEVELOPMENT IN LANDSCAPES
OF VALUE CHAIN DEVELOPMENT AND AGRIBUSINESS
5 Beyond the value chain: local impacts of ‘global’ inclusive
agribusiness investments – examples from Ghana 58
Guus van Westen
6 Land-based investments and the inevitability of increased
farmer–Fulani pastoralist conflicts in Northern Ghana 76
Sebastiaan Soeters, Ruben Weesie and Annelies Zoomers
7 Global flows of investments in agriculture and
irrigation-related technologies in sub-Saharan Africa 92
Janwillem Liebrand, Wouter Beekman, Chris de Bont and Gert Jan
Veldwisch
8 Land investment flows and translocal development chains of
‘impairing destruction’ 110
Alberto Alonso-Fradejas

PART III TRANSLOCAL DEVELOPMENT IN LANDSCAPES
OF NATURE CONSERVATION AND WILDLIFE
CONSERVATION
9 Global investment flows in land restoration and nature conservation 131
Marja Spierenburg
10 Involuntary resettlement projects as a frontier of sustainable
translocal development 147
Kei Otsuki

PART IV TRANSLOCAL DEVELOPMENT IN LANDSCAPES
OF LARGE-SCALE MINING
11 The mining sector in sub-Saharan Africa: flows of capital and
people in large-scale mining and artisanal and small-scale mining 162
Chris Huggins
12 Corporate and migrant investment in a gold-mining
development corridor: the case of Suriname 179
Marjo de Theije
13 Civil society’s positionality in new development chains:
insights from the land and mining sectors in Tanzania 191
Joanny Bélair and Thabit Jacob

PART V TRANSLOCAL DEVELOPMENT IN LANDSCAPES
OF NEW CITY DEVELOPMENT AND URBAN
INFRASTRUCTURES
14 New master-planned cities in Africa: translocal flows
‘touching ground’? 206
Femke van Noorloos
15 Urban infrastructure and displacement: two sides of the
sustainability coin 218
Murtah Shannon
16 Conclusions 232
Kei Otsuki, Guus van Westen and Annelies Zoomers

Index