This article examines how the threat of eviction by a transnational land deal in coastal Tanzania shaped competing narratives with which longtime residents and migrants defended and legitimated the moral economy of land: a widely shared customary norm that land belonged to those who cleared, occupied, and used it continuously for their daily provisioning, with or without title deeds. To counter the state's claim that all villagers were “invaders,” long-term residents appealed to their ethnic and ancestral connections to the land, while migrants invoked a broader idiom of agrarian citizenship that placed land entitlements at the heart of rural people's relationship with the state. Despite this divergence, nervousness similarly pervaded both group's narratives, due in part to the instability of the notion of ethnicity and autochthony in coastal Tanzania and people's historically informed sense of foreboding about state-sanctioned dispossession. The article draws on the analytic of assemblage to advance a more relational and dynamic understanding of the co-construction and performance of moral economy and rural identity. Analyzing how villagers imagine and articulate their identities, and how discourses of exclusion and belonging get deployed in conjunctures of displacement is critical to understanding the socio-material realities of rural life in Tanzania today.

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“回到你来的地方！”：土地的道德经济与坦桑尼亚沿海地区的归属政治☆

本文探讨了坦桑尼亚沿海跨国土地交易的驱逐威胁如何塑造了长期居民和移民捍卫土地道德经济并使之合法化的相互竞争的叙事：一种广泛认同的习惯规范，即土地属于那些清理、占领和使用土地的人。无论有或没有产权契约，都将其持续用于日常供应。为了反驳国家关于所有村民都是“入侵者”的说法，长期居民诉诸于他们与土地的种族和祖先联系，而移民则援引了更广泛的农业公民身份，将土地权利置于农村人口与土地关系的核心位置。状态。尽管存在这种分歧，但紧张情绪同样弥漫在两个群体的叙述中，部分原因是坦桑尼亚沿海地区种族和本土观念的不稳定，以及人们历史上对国家批准的剥夺的不祥预感。本文利用组合分析来推进对道德经济和乡村认同的共建和表现的更加相关和动态的理解。分析村民如何想象和表达他们的身份，以及在流离失所的情况下如何运用排斥和归属感话语，对于理解当今坦桑尼亚农村生活的社会物质现实至关重要。