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African Studies: Politics of Poverty : Policy-Making and Development in Rural Tanzania by Felicitas Becker (2019, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherCambridge University Press
ISBN-101108496938
ISBN-139781108496933
eBay Product ID (ePID)7038469862
Product Key Features
Number of Pages378 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NamePolitics of Poverty : Policy-Making and Development in Rural Tanzania
Publication Year2019
SubjectSociology / General, Africa / General, Poverty & Homelessness, Agriculture & Food (See Also Political Science / Public Policy / Agriculture & Food Policy), Public Policy / Economic Policy, Sociology / Rural, Public Policy / Regional Planning
TypeTextbook
AuthorFelicitas Becker
Subject AreaPolitical Science, Social Science, History
SeriesAfrican Studies
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.8 in
Item Weight25.8 Oz
Item Length9.3 in
Item Width6.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2018-061720
TitleLeadingThe
Dewey Edition23
Reviews'It will be of interest to any scholar wanting a more intimate and complicated portrayal of the developmentalist machine that endures in the twenty-first century in regions across the global South.' Muey Ching Saeteurn, Agricultural History, 'The Politics of Poverty thus complements the existing literature on development and poverty in Tanzania, offering another historical account that is anthropologically informed, environmentally minded, and attuned to political-economic dynamics ... Practitioners and scholars of development, particularly those with an interest in Tanzania and rural areas more generally, will find this book a useful addition to their libraries.' Jessica Pouchet, International Journal of African Historical Studies
Series Volume NumberSeries Number 143
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal339.4609678
Table Of ContentIntroduction; 1. The end of slavery, famine and food aid in Tunduru; 2. Changing configurations of poverty in the colonial Southeast and the myth of communalism; 3. The struggle to trade; 4. Independence and the rhetoric of feasibility; 5. Villagisation and the pursuit of market access; 6. The politics of development in the era of liberalisation; 7. Performing and pursuing development in Kineng'ene; Conclusion; Bibliography.
SynopsisHow is it that rural poverty in southern Tanzania appears both easy to explain and yet also mystifying? Why is it that 'development' is such a touchstone, when actual attempts at fostering development have been largely ephemeral and/or unpopular for decades? In this book, Felicitas Becker traces dynamics of rural poverty based on the exportation of foodstuffs rather than the better-known problems connected to exportation of migrant labour, and examines what has kept the development industry going despite its failure to break these dynamics. Becker argues that development planners often exaggerated their prospects to secure funding, repackaged old strategies as new to maintain their promise, and shifted blame onto rural Africans for failing to meet the expectations they had raised. But the rural poor, too, pursued conversations on the causes and morality of poverty and wealth. Despite their dependence and deprivation, officials found repeatedly that they could not take them for granted., A long-term analysis of development projects in rural Tanzania, tracing the improvised, reactive nature of small-scale interventions, aimed at staving off the threat posed by acute poverty to local governments' legitimacy and effectiveness.
LC Classification NumberHC885.Z9P6125 2019
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