Deborah Fahy Bryceson

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According to Wikipedia, Deborah Fahy Bryceson is a British academic currently affiliated to the Centre of African Studies at the University of Edinburgh and University of Uppsala. She pioneered research into sectoral change in Africa, looking primarily at 'transnational families' and coining the terms 'de-agrarianisation' and 'mineralized urbanization'. She has published 16 books and over 130 journal articles and book chapters, specialising on livelihood, labour, urbanization and agrarian studies.

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The Scramble in Africa: Reorienting Rural Livelihoods (2002) (700)
The Transnational Family: New European Frontiers and Global Networks (2002) (521)
Deagrarianization and Rural Employment in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Sectoral Perspective (1996) (471)
African Rural Labour, Income Diversification and Livelihood Approaches: A Long-term Development Perspective* (1999) (370)
Disappearing Peasantries? Rural Labour in Africa, Asia and Latin America (2000) (243)
Making a Living: Changing Livelihoods in Rural Africa (2000) (217)
Rural Africa at the crossroads: livelihood practices and policies. (2000) (204)
Farewell to Farms (1997) (197)
Multiplex livelihoods in rural Africa: recasting the terms and conditions of gainful employment (2002) (196)
Gold digging careers in rural east Africa: small-scale miners' livelihood choices. (2010) (163)
Rural household transport in Africa: Reducing the burden on women? (1993) (131)
Risking death for survival: Peasant responses to hunger and HIV/AIDS in Malawi (2006) (125)
Ganyu casual labour, famine and HIV/AIDS in rural Malawi: causality and casualty (2006) (122)
Rushing for Gold: Mobility and Small‐Scale Mining in East Africa (2009) (113)
Agrarian Vista or Vortex: African rural livelihood policies (2004) (101)
Peasant theories and smallholder policies: Past and present (2000) (101)
African Agriculture and The World Bank: Development or Impoverishment? (2008) (93)
End of an Era: Africa's Development Policy Parallax (2001) (92)
Livelihoods, daily mobility and poverty in sub-saharan Africa (2003) (92)
Sub-Saharan Africa betwixt and between : rural livelihood practices and policies (1999) (80)
The World Development Report 2009 ?reshapes economic geography?: geographical reflections (2009) (79)
Women Wielding the Hoe: Lessons From Rural Africa for Feminist Theory and Development Practice (1995) (77)
Artisanal frontier mining of gold in Africa: Labour transformation in Tanzania and the Democratic Republic of Congo (2016) (71)
Transnational Families in the Twenty-first Century (2020) (71)
Miners' magic: artisanal mining, the albino fetish and murder in Tanzania* (2010) (69)
Religion, reciprocity and restructuring family responsibility in the Ghanaian Pentecostal diaspora (2002) (66)
The Legal Status of Women and Poverty in Tanzania (1996) (61)
DAR ES SALAAM AND KAMPALA AS ETHNIC CITIES IN COALESCING NATION STATES (2008) (60)
Disappearing peasantries? Rural labour redundancy in the neo-liberal era and beyond (2000) (58)
SUSTAINABLE LIVELIHOODS, MOBILITY AND ACCESS NEEDS (2003) (55)
Eureka and beyond: mining's impact on African urbanisation (2012) (52)
POVERTY AND URBAN TRANSPORT IN EAST AFRICA: REVIEW OF RESEARCH AND DUTCH DONOR EXPERIENCE (2000) (48)
Sub-Saharan Africa's Vanishing Peasantries and the Specter of a Global Food Crisis (2009) (47)
Transnational families negotiating migration and care life cycles across nation-state borders (2019) (47)
Gender and generational patterns of African deagrarianization: Evolving labour and land allocation in smallholder peasant household farming, 1980–2015 (2019) (45)
Critical Commentary. The World Development Report 2009 (2009) (45)
Social Pathways from the HIV/AIDS Deadlock of Disease, Denial and Desperation in Rural Malawi (2004) (43)
Mining and Social Transformation in Africa : Mineralizing and Democratizing Trends in Artisanal Production (2013) (41)
African peasant's centrality and marginality: Rural labour transformations (2000) (40)
African Urban Economies (2006) (37)
The Proletarianization of Women in Tanzania (1980) (37)
Prostitution or partnership? Wifestyles in Tanzanian artisanal gold-mining settlements* (2013) (36)
Alcohol in Africa : mixing business, pleasure, and politics (2004) (36)
African Urban Economies: Searching for Sources of Sustainability (2006) (33)
Fragile Cities: Fundamentals of Urban Life in East and Southern Africa (2006) (32)
Changes in Peasant Food Production and Food Supply in Relation to the Historical Development of Commodity Production in Pre-Colonial and Colonial Tanganyika (1980) (31)
Birth of a market town in Tanzania: towards narrative studies of urban Africa (2011) (30)
Food Insecurity and the Social Division of Labour in Tanzania, 1919-85 (1990) (30)
Nutrition and the commoditization of food in sub-Saharan Africa. (1989) (30)
Gender relations in rural Tanzania: power politics or cultural consensus? (1995) (30)
Unearthing treasure and trouble: mining as an impetus to urbanisation in Tanzania (2012) (26)
Chance, change and choice in Africa's drylands. (2004) (25)
The Urban Experience in Eastern Africa c. 1750-2000 (2003) (24)
De-agrarianization and rural employment generation in sub-Saharan Africa : process and prospects (1993) (22)
De-agrarianisation in Sub-Saharan Africa: Acknowledging the Inevitable (2019) (22)
PEASANT COMMODITY PRODUCTION IN POST-COLONIAL TANZANIA (1982) (21)
Petrol pumps and economic slumps: rural-urban linkages in Zimbabwe's globalisation process (2003) (20)
Easing rural women's working day in Sub-Saharan Africa. (1994) (19)
Artisanal gold-rush mining and frontier democracy: Juxtaposing experiences in America, Australia, Africa and Asia (2018) (19)
Beyond the artisanal mining site: migration, housing capital accumulation and indirect urbanization in East Africa (2017) (19)
Rural livelihoods and agrarian change in sub-Saharan Africa - processes and policies. (2005) (18)
Urban Bias Revisited: Staple Food Pricing in Tanzania (1992) (18)
For Richer, for Poorer: Marriage and Casualized Sex in East African Artisanal Mining Settlements (2014) (18)
FOOD AND URBAN PURCHASING POWER: THE CASE OF DAR ES SALAAM, TANZANIA (1985) (16)
Modernity's limits : Pentecostalism and the moral rejection of alcohol in Malawi (2002) (16)
How Africa works : occupational change, identity and morality (2010) (15)
Mineralizing Africa and artisanal mining's democratizing influences. (2014) (15)
Diluting drinks and deepening discontent : colonial liquor controls and public resistance in Windhoek, Namibia (2002) (14)
Of Criminals and Clients: African Culture and Afro-Pessimism in a Globalized World (2000) (14)
Identity and networks : fashioning gender and ethnicity across cultures (2007) (14)
Food insecurity and the social division of labour in Tanzania, 1919-1985 (1988) (13)
Artisanal mining's democratizing directions and deviations. (2014) (12)
An enduring or dying peasantry? Interactive impact of famine and HIV/AIDS in rural Malawi. (2006) (11)
Rural-urban transitions in Tanzania's northwest mining frontier. (2009) (10)
The Widening Gyre: The Tanzanian one-party state and policy towards rural cooperatives (1991) (9)
Peasant Cash Cropping versus Self?suffciency in Tanzania: A Historical Perspective (1988) (9)
1. Africa at work: transforming occupational identity and morality (2010) (9)
Use values, the law of value and the analysis of non-capitalist production (1983) (9)
Discovery and denial: Social science theory and interdisciplinarity in African Studies (2012) (8)
AGRARIAN FUNDAMENTALISM OR FORESIGHT?: REVISITING NYERERE’S VISION FOR RURAL TANZANIA (2010) (8)
Liberalizing Tanzania's Food Trade: Public and Private Faces of Urban Marketing Policy 1913-1988 (1993) (8)
Youth in Tanzania's Urbanizing Mining Settlements: Prospecting a Mineralized Future (2014) (7)
Lightening the Load on Rural Women: How Appropriate is the Technology Directed Towards Africa? (1997) (7)
African rural labour and the World Bank: An alternative perspective (1997) (6)
African poverty at the Millennium: causes, complexities, and challenges (2002) (6)
Mining in Africa after the supercycle: New directions and geographies (2021) (6)
Colonial famine responses: The Bagamoyo district of Tanganyika, 1920–1961 (1981) (6)
Rural-urban Transitions in Northwestern Tanzania’s Mining Frontier (2009) (6)
FRAMEWORK FOR THE INCLUSION OF SOCIAL BENEFITS IN TRANSPORT PLANNING (2003) (5)
Lightening the Load: Women's Labour and Appropriate Rural Technology in Sub-Saharan Africa (1994) (5)
Alcohol in Africa (1993) (5)
Globalisation, Structural Adjustment and African Agriculture: Analysis and Evidence (2010) (5)
Economic activities of the poor in Accra. (1997) (5)
Europe's Transnational Families and Migration: Past and Present (2020) (4)
Getting grounded? Miners’ migration, housing and urban settlement in Tanzania, 1980–2012 (2019) (4)
Tanzanian grain supply: Peasant production and state policies (1982) (4)
Vulnerability and Viability of East and Southern Africa’s Apex Cities (2006) (4)
Sustainable livelihoods approach and mobility: a presentation. (2002) (4)
Frontier mining settlements: livelihood promises and predicaments (2010) (3)
Maize marketing policies in Tanzania, 1939-1998: from basic needs to market basics. (1999) (3)
SUSTAINABLE LIVELIHOODS , MOBILITY AND ACCESS NEEDS IN URBAN AND PERI-URBAN AREAS (2001) (3)
Tenure, livelihoods and sustainable development — rangelands as systems for multiple land use and livelihood support (2003) (3)
Going for gold: Miners' mobility and mining motivation. (2014) (3)
14. Between moral economy and civil society: Durkheim revisited (2010) (3)
Too Many Assumptions: Researching Grain Markets in Tanzania * (1994) (2)
Re-Evaluating the Influence of Urban Agglomeration in Sub-Saharan Africa (2014) (2)
Precarity in Angolan diamond mining towns, 1920–2014: tracing agency of the state, mining companies and urban households (2018) (2)
Loosely-woven Love: Sexuality and Wifestyles in Gold-mining Settlements (2013) (2)
Trade roots in Tanzania: Evolution of urban grain markets under structural adjustment (1994) (2)
De-agrarianisation: Blessing or Blight? (2019) (2)
Dar es Salaam as a 'Harbour of Peace' in East Africa: Tracing the Role of Creolized Urban Ethnicity in Nation-State Formation (2010) (2)
Swahili creolization: the case of Dar es Salaam (2010) (2)
The urban melting pot in east Africa: Ethnicity and urban growth in Kampala and dar es Salaam (2009) (2)
Sustainable livelihoods, mobilty and access needs in urban and peri-urban areas (2001) (2)
Beyond belief: Mining, magic and murder in Sukumaland. (2013) (2)
Transitional Economic Policy and Policy Options in Tanzania edited by S. M. WANGWE, H. H. SEMBOIA, and P. TIBANDEBAGE Dar es Salaam: Mkuki na Nyota Publishers, distributed by African Books Collective Ltd., Oxford, 1998. Pp. 136. £9.95 (pbk.). (1999) (1)
SUSTAINABLE LIVELIHOODS, MOBILITY AND ACTIVITY PATTERNS IN ZIMBABWE AND UGANDA (2002) (1)
The Asian Market (1990) (1)
Special issue : mining & urbanisation in Africa : population, settlement and welfare (2012) (1)
Pursuing an artisanal mining career: Downward success. (2014) (1)
Can Africa claim the 21st century?' A World Bank publication, May 2000. Review and comments (2000) (1)
Prelims - Disappearing Peasantries? (2000) (1)
10. Un continent rural en transition (1995) (1)
Globalisation, structural adjustment and African agriculture (2009) (1)
Special Issue: Mining and Urbanisation in Africa: Population, Settlement and Welfare [Guest Editors] (2012) (1)
Rural Development Project Performance: A Review of 46 Evaluation Studies of DGIS-funded Projects in the themes Agricultural Research, Natural Resource Management, Water Management and Area Development and the Implications for the sector wide approach (2005) (1)
Trading Down: Africa, Value Chains, and the Global Economy by Peter Gibbon and Stefano Ponte (2007) (1)
Mining habitat, house and home during an East African gold boom: economic and emotional dimensions (2021) (1)
The filmic representation of home in transnational families: The case of I for India (2016) (0)
Food Supply for an African Wage-Labour Force, 1919–39 (1990) (0)
OILING THE URBAN ECONOMY: LAND, LABOUR, CAPITAL, AND THE STATE IN SEKONDI-TAKORAD, GHANA BY FRANKLIN OBENG-ODOOM (2015) (0)
Methods for Tracing Rapid Market Change: Urban Grain Supply Networks in Tanzania (1999) (0)
Prelims - How Africa Works (2010) (0)
Balancing The Needs of Humans and Animals-The Ethics of Working Animal Use MODERNIZING RURAL LIVELIHOODS AND TRANSPORT IN AFRICA : DIRECTIONS AND DILEMMAS (2011) (0)
Clientage and Crisis, 1979–85 (1990) (0)
MINERALIZED URBANIZATION IN AFRICA IN THE TWENTY‐FIRST CENTURY : Becoming Urban through Mining Extraction (2022) (0)
Urban Growth and Food Adequacy (1990) (0)
A Century of Food Supply in Dar Es Salaam (2018) (0)
Deagrarianisation and depeasantisation in Africa (2018) (0)
The Relationship Between Population, the Social Division of Labour and Food Supply (1990) (0)
Changing cultures, changing rooms: Fashioning identities and anthropological research (2007) (0)
The British Colonial State (1990) (0)
Introduction:: The Artistry of Social Life (2007) (0)
Book Review: Postcolonial African Cities: Imperial Legacies and Postcolonial Predicament F. Demissie (Ed.), 2009 London: Routledge 150 pp. £70.00 hardback ISBN 978 0 415 45448 3 hardback (2010) (0)
The Population/Food Production Capability Balance at the Outset of Industrialisation (1990) (0)
Sustainable livelihoods, access and mobility along the Kampala-Jinja Corridor, Uganda, 2001. (2002) (0)
“Fast Crops, Fast Cash: Market Liberalization and Rural Livelihoods in Songea and Morogoro Districts, Tanzania” in the Canadian Journal of African Studies (2016) (0)
The Re-ordering of the State and the Market (1990) (0)
Interdisciplinary Conference on Extraction and Exclusion Conference (2017) (0)
African Women Hoe Cultivators: Speculative Origins and Current Enigmas* (2020) (0)
Urban Growth and Poverty in Mining Africa. End of Award Report. (2013) (0)
Wishful Thinking: Theory and Practice of Western Donor Efforts to Raise Women's Status in Rural Africa* (2020) (0)
Physical Determinants of Food Insecurity and Settlement (1990) (0)
SLAM inception report. (2001) (0)
Characteristics of the Peasant Household Farming Unit (1990) (0)
THE ARTISTRY OF SOCIAL LIFE (2006) (0)
Defining Extra-Household Social Institutions (1990) (0)
AFR volume 57 issue 4 Back matter (1987) (0)
Other Books Received for Review (1996) (0)
Cooperatives and Neighbourhood Clientage Exchange (1990) (0)
Merger of the State and Clientage (1990) (0)
Review Articles (2000) (0)
Ganyu in Malawi: transformation of local labour relations under famine and UIV/AIDS duress (2012) (0)
Parastatal Staple Food Management (1990) (0)
Sustainable livelihoods, access and mobility along the Harare-Bindura Corridor, Zimbabwe. (2002) (0)
Domestic Work (2019) (0)
Transnational Families and Neo-Liberal Globalisation: Past, Present and Future (2022) (0)
Commonwealth bookshelf (2001) (0)
Native Authority Clientage (1990) (0)
The Systematisation of Territorial Food Supply: 1939–50 (1990) (0)
NEEDS IN URBAN AND PERI-URBAN AREAS by * (2003) (0)
The Incidence of Household Food Inadequacy (1990) (0)
Second thoughts on marketing co-operatives in Tanzania : background to their re-instatement (1983) (0)
'The Tepid Backwater': Bagamovo District and its Marginal Commodity Production Within the Tanganyikan Colonial Economy, 1919-1961 (1982) (0)
De-agrarianization in Africa : proceedings of the "De-agrarianization and rural employment" workshop held at the Afrika-Studiecentrum, Leiden, May 1994 (1994) (0)
Primitive accumulation and imperialism in relation to the reproduction of third world peasantries (2018) (0)
Beyond Livelihoods: Occupationality and Career Formation in African Artisanal Mining (2015) (0)

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