{"product_id":"sweet-deal-bitter-landscape","title":"Sweet Deal, Bitter Landscape","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2025 Outstanding Book Award by the Cultural and Political Ecology (CAPE) Specialty Group of the American Association of Geographers (AAG)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSweet Deal, Bitter Landscape\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e brings us to the mid-2000s, when the Tanzanian government struck a deal with a foreign investor to convert more than 20,000 hectares of long-settled coastal land to establish a sugarcane plantation. \u003c\/b\u003eTen years on, the deal was abruptly abandoned. Popularly deemed a case of hubristic global development, critics classified this project another in a line of failed modern resource grabs.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nYoujin B. Chung argues such tidy accounts conceal myriad and profound implications: not only how gender, history, and culture shaped the project's trajectory, but also how, even in its stalled state, the deal upended social life on the land by setting in motion incomplete processes of development and dispossession.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nWith rich ethnographic detail and visual storytelling, \u003ci\u003eSweet Deal, Bitter Landscape\u003c\/i\u003e traces the lived experiences of diverse rural women and men as they struggled for survival under a seemingly endless condition of liminality. In so doing, she raises critical questions about the directions and stakes of postcolonial development and nation-building in Tanzania, and the shifting meanings of identity and belonging for those on the margins of capitalist agrarian transformation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n","brand":"Youjin B. Chung","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43574405234870,"sku":"9781501772009","price":108.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0251\/4980\/0541\/files\/9781501772009_2f9c2db7-37f9-4a48-b640-45b213e2d29e.jpg?v=1728052137","url":"https:\/\/combined-academic.myshopify.com\/products\/sweet-deal-bitter-landscape","provider":"Combined Academic Publishers - Mare Nostrum Group","version":"1.0","type":"link"}