Space, ownership and inequality: economic development and tourism in the highlands of Lesotho

Yvonne A. Braun and Leslie A. McLees

Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, 2011, vol. 5, issue 3, 435-449

Abstract: Contrasting infrastructure and tourism development at one remote highlands location in Lesotho, our analysis captures important historical processes that created opportunities for the state to expand ownership over rural, locally owned lands and resources for national and private sector growth. We highlight how the state transforms rural spaces through economic development and tourism initiatives and argue that this process forges new iterations of ownership and inequality within these changing social relations and spaces. Analysis over time highlights the contradictions of the state's continued investment in a neoliberal logic of production and value that ultimately served to privilege foreign industry. Copyright 2011, Oxford University Press.

Date: 2011
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