Beyond the State in Rural Uganda - Couverture rigide

Jones, Ben

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0748635181 ISBN 13 : 9780748635184

Editeur : Edinburgh University Press, 2008

Synopsis

Beyond the State in Rural Uganda This book challenges the usual ways in which development and change are regarded in rural Africa and provides a corrective to state-centred studies of development. Full description

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

In this innovative study, Ben Jones argues that scholars too often assume that the state is the most important force behind change in local political communities in Africa. Studies look to the state, and to the impact of government reforms, as ways of understanding processes of development and change. Using the example of Uganda, regarded as one of Africa's few "success stories", Jones chronicles the insignificance of the state and the marginal impact of Western development agencies. Extensive ethnographic fieldwork in a Ugandan village reveals that it is churches, the village court, and organizations based on family and kinships obligations that represent the most significant sites of innovation and social transformation. Groundbreaking and critical in turn, Beyond the State offers a new anthropological perspective on how to think about processes of social and political change in poorer parts of the world. It should appeal to anyone interested in African development.Key features: *Offers a new approach to studying development and change *Gives a fresh perspective on Christianity in Africa *Looks at problems of international development assistance *Provides a rich ethnographic rural study from east Africa

Revue de presse :

... a refreshing and original antidote to the myopic habits of conventional scholarship... [an] illuminating, astute, against-the-grain study of real-existing development.' -- James C. Scott, Sterling Professor of Political Science and Anthropology, Yale University ! an excellent critique of perspectives focusing on the success of a reform-minded Ugandan state. Jones portrays instead the weakness of central government in the countryside and the deleterious effects of 'external' development schemes. His focus is on change generated from within the local community by the coalescences and interchanges among religious and kin-based associations. --Joan Vincent, Emeritus Professor of Anthropology, Columbia University

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Edinburgh University Press
• Date d'édition: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0748635181
• ISBN 13: 9780748635184
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 224