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    Urban Rural Straddling. Conceptualizing the Peri-urban in Central Africa.

    Authors
    Trefon, T.
    Discipline
    Earth and related Environmental sciences
    Subject
    Geodynamics and mineral resources
    Audience
    Scientific
    Date
    2011
    Publisher
    Sage
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    Description
    African urban hinterlands are fascinating spaces of imbalance where ordinary people have imagined new constructions of space and time. On the basis of interdisciplinary field research in central Africa, this article analyzes how power over nature is structured in peri-urban areas. It defines the concept of peri-urban space and identifies the stakeholders working, living, exploiting, and imagining this hybrid form of social space. It addresses the way urban populations have reconfigured the complex relations that link them to their hinterlands. It concludes that demographic pressure will continue in peri-urban areas, that the environment will be increasingly degraded and people living in these areas will find access to land for housing and agriculture more and more challenging.
    Citation
    Trefon, T. (2011). Urban Rural Straddling. Conceptualizing the Peri-urban in Central Africa.. , Journal of Developing Societies, Vol. 27 (3-4); Global Cities of the South / Urban Subjects, Sage, DOI: doi: 10.1177/0169796X1102700408.
    Identifiers
    uri: https://orfeo.belnet.be/handle/internal/1252
    doi: http://dx.doi.org/doi: 10.1177/0169796X1102700408
    url: http://jds.sagepub.com/content/27/3-4/421.abstract
    Type
    Article
    Peer-Review
    Yes
    Language
    eng
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