This article explores the nature and frequency of crimes and people's safety perceptions in
rural areas using a systematic review of the literature. It explores four decades of English …

This essay examines how activists in rural southern India have sought to reshape the field of
political communication by encouraging lower‐caste women to submit written, signed …

Until recently, women were largely invisible as miners within the array of initiatives, laws and
policies seeking to regulate mining in sub-Saharan Africa. This invisibility is beginning to …

This article examines Zimbabwean land politics and the study of rural interventions,
including agrarian reform, more broadly, using the analytical framework of territorialized …

This essay examines the changing nature of farm wage labour in the context of the extensive
redistributive land reform since 2000. Using field research from two districts in Zimbabwe …

In the early twenty-first century, white-owned farms in Zimbabwe were subject to large-scale
occupations by black urban dwellers in an increasingly violent struggle between national …

This study explores the phenomenon of banditry as a criminal enterprise in Nigeria. By
employing qualitative and quantitative data, it provides a historical context for banditry and …

How are meta-narratives of development entangled in people's identities and life
trajectories? How do they inhabit people's histories, their understandings of their place in the …

This essay builds on fieldwork in rural Senegal to examine three cases in which elder
household heads called on gendarmes to physically discipline rebellious youths. These …

In this article, we focus on patriarchy, women, land and livelihoods on A1 farms in Zimbabwe
which arose from the fast track land reform programme. There is now significant literature on …