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Titre
Les densités : introduction à la géographie de l'Afrique orientale ?
Sujet
Migrations ; Pioneer Fringe ; Violence ; Spatial Adjustments ; Population Densities ; Kivu ; Burundi ; Rwanda ; Uganda ; Tanzania ; Kenya ; Eastern Africa
Kiv ; Afrique orientale ; Kenya ; Tanzanie ; Ouganda ; Rwanda ; Burundi ; Densités ; Ajustements spatiaux ; Violence ; Fronts pionniers ; Migrations
Description
Population Densities : Introduction to a Geography of eastern Africa ?
The high demographic growth rate which strikes East Africa does not alter the major patterns of the population distribution nor the density geography in the region. However, peasantry challenge this growth with four types of adjustments : spatial adjustments (swamp and forest clearance within the territory, settlements outside the territory, political and land repartition adjustments and violent adjustments which either force people to fly away or kill them. The frequency of crisis situations lays stress on societies which are blocked in their territories or in their technical systems or in their inégal political and land sharings. This paper gives a grid to read the different regional situations as far as interactions between density and develops ment are concerned.
The high demographic growth rate which strikes East Africa does not alter the major patterns of the population distribution nor the density geography in the region. However, peasantry challenge this growth with four types of adjustments : spatial adjustments (swamp and forest clearance within the territory, settlements outside the territory, political and land repartition adjustments and violent adjustments which either force people to fly away or kill them. The frequency of crisis situations lays stress on societies which are blocked in their territories or in their technical systems or in their inégal political and land sharings. This paper gives a grid to read the different regional situations as far as interactions between density and develops ment are concerned.
Le très fort accroissement démographique de l'Afrique orientale ne bouleverse fondamentalement pas la distribution des populations ni la répartition des densités. Cependant, cet accroissement pousse les sociétés paysannes à des ajustements spatiaux internes par la conquête de nouveaux terroirs, des ajustements spatiaux externes par la conquête de nouveaux finages et l'exode rural, des ajustements politico-fonciers et des ajustements négatifs par la violence. La fréquence des situations de crise souligne les blocages d'évolution de sociétés confinées dans des territoires trop étroits, des systèmes techniques trop rudimentaires et/ou des systèmes politico-fonciers trop inégalitaires. Cette analyse fournit une grille de lecture qui fonde une typologie régionale des régions en fonction de leurs aptitudes à assumer l'entassement en cours.
Calas Bernard. Les densités : introduction à la géographie de l'Afrique orientale ?. In: Espace, populations, sociétés, 1999-1. Les populations de l'Afrique subsaharienne. pp. 53-65.
Créateur
Bernard Calas
Éditeur
PERSEE
Date
1999
Langue
fre
Type
article
Identifiant
http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/espos_0755-7809_1999_num_17_1_1869
doi:10.3406/espos.1999.1869
Couverture
53-65