Endangering Development: Politics, Projects, and Environment in Burkina Faso - Couverture rigide

Engberg-Pedersen, Lars

 
9780275979102: Endangering Development: Politics, Projects, and Environment in Burkina Faso
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0275979105 ISBN 13 : 9780275979102
Editeur : Praeger Publishers Inc, 2003

Synopsis

The politics of international intervention into rural areas is the subject of this insightful study. Using concrete cases drawn from fieldwork in rural Burkina Faso, Engberg-Pedersen shows how nongovernmental organizations' activities with women's groups, natural resource management projects, decentralization policies, and rural democratization advocates must enter an arena of local struggle for resources and status. He maintains that activists often seriously contradict rural people's practices and understandings of particular issues and how they should be organized. Thus, while societal conflicts and institutional contradictions are inescapable features of rural development, development assistance agents and scholars of democratization and political change in Africa largely ignore them.

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À propos de l?auteur

LARS ENGBERG-PEDERSEN is Head of the International Department at the Danish Association for International Co-Operation.

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Éditeur
Praeger Publishers Inc
Date d'édition
2003
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0275979105
ISBN 13 
9780275979102
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
184
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Personne responsable
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