African peasants on the move: Turmoil between global dynamics, migration and food insecurity

Journal article | Zeitschriftenartikel

The relations between global dynamics and internal dynamics in African societies can be regarded from a perspective of flow analysis, as loose bundles of flows that interact with each other. These in-flows and out-flows of different origins, directions and rates are affected by bottlenecks and other interferences resulting from interaction between them, causing turmoil and other unexpected effects. These irregular, non-linear flows comprise energy, information, money, people, and material. Global dynamics produce high-energy flows with a high rate of change, whilst flows in African societies, with the exception of violent conflicts, forced migration, etc., are usually, of low energy and slow change. They meet in a grey zone, where interactions are fuzzy and complex and produce ever-changing turmoil that engages the dynamics of society.

Object Details

• ISSN: 2182-7400
• Extent: Seite(n): 11-28
• Language: Englisch
• Notes: Status: Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Cadernos de Estudos Africanos(29)

Classification and Topics

• Subject: Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie ; Soziologie, Anthropologie ; Entwicklungsländersoziologie, Entwicklungssoziologie ; Migration ; Landwirt ; globaler Wandel ; Migration ; Globalisierung ; sozialer Wandel ; landwirtschaftliche Entwicklung ; Ernährungssituation ; Afrika

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Carvalho, Ana Larcher ; Schiefer, Ulrich ; Dünnwald, Stephan
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (when): 2015

Further information

• URN: urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-50219-7
• Rights: GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften. Bibliothek Köln
• Last update: 17.04.2025, 2:58 AM CEST