Environmental management and the reshaping and respacing of livelihoods in sub-Saharan Africa: a short commentary on recent trends and conceptual ideas

Krüger F, Samimi C (2019)

Publication Type: Journal article

Publication year: 2019

Journal

African Geographical Review African Specialty Group of the Association of American Geographers

Book Volume: 38

Pages Range: 48-53

Journal Issue: 1

DOI: 10.1080/19376812.2017.1286244

Abstract

In recent years, many regions in sub-Saharan Africa have experienced growing contestations of existing livelihood practices and massive environmental change.This has been accompanied by what has sometimes been described as a 'respacing' of Africa, i.e. an increasing blurriness of the nation state and social relationships becoming more and more interconnected on the local to global scales, rendering conventional concepts of space and territory obsolete. In this introductory essay, we briefly discuss notions of this 'respacing' process, highlight its validity but also its ambiguity, and thus lay the ground for the ensuing compilation of papers on social, environmental, and spatial change in sub-Saharan Africa.

Authors with CRIS profile

Fred Krüger Professur für Geographie

Involved external institutions

Universität Bayreuth DE Germany (DE)

How to cite

APA:

Krüger, F., & Samimi, C. (2019). Environmental management and the reshaping and respacing of livelihoods in sub-Saharan Africa: a short commentary on recent trends and conceptual ideas. African Geographical Review, 38(1), 48-53. https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19376812.2017.1286244

MLA:

Krüger, Fred, and Cyrus Samimi. "Environmental management and the reshaping and respacing of livelihoods in sub-Saharan Africa: a short commentary on recent trends and conceptual ideas." African Geographical Review 38.1 (2019): 48-53.

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