Antoinette Danebaï Lamana work focuses on the political economy of rural transformation in Sub-Saharan Africa. She currently holds a postdoctoral fellowship at HUMA – Institute for Humanities in Africa at the University of Cape Town, where she expands her research on land governance, agrarian change, and the ethics of development.
Her doctoral research, conducted at the University of Lille (France), examined the Semry rice development scheme in Northern Cameroon through a long-term ethnographic lens. Her work highlights how rural communities—especially youth and women—respond to state-led agricultural modernization with strategies of resistance, adaptation, and agency.
Antoinette’s approach bridges socio-economics, development anthropology, and political sociology, contributing to critical debates on inclusive development, rural inequalities, and the decolonization of agricultural policy. She is committed to academic work that is both empirically grounded and politically engaged, with a particular focus on marginalized voices in rural Africa.
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The Collective of Agrarian Scholar-Activists from the Global South (CASAS) is a community of Scholar-Activists working in critical agrarian studies.