The Development State: Aid, Culture and Civil Society in Tanzania - Couverture souple

Green, Maia

 
9781847011084: The Development State: Aid, Culture and Civil Society in Tanzania
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 184701108X ISBN 13 : 9781847011084
Editeur : James Currey, 2014

Synopsis

How has development affected the practices of the state in Africa? How has the development state become the basis of social organisation? How do Tanzanians position themselves to obtain aid money to effect change in their personal lives? Financial aid flows have entrenched an economy of intervention in which the main beneficiaries are those who can claim to undertake development activities. Even for those not formally engaged in the development sector, its discourses influence everyday discussion about class and inequality, poverty and wealth, modernity and tradition. With Tanzania as the country focus, the author shows how the practices of development have infiltrated not only the state at large but many aspects of people's everyday lives. Maia Green is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Manchester.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

How has development affected the practices of the state in Africa? How has the development state become the basis of social organisation? How do Tanzanians position themselves to obtain aid money to effect change in their personal lives? Financial aid flows have entrenched an economy of intervention in which the main beneficiaries are those who can claim to undertake development activities. Even for those not formally engaged in the development sector, its discourses influence everyday discussion about class and inequality, poverty and wealth, modernity and tradition. With Tanzania as the country focus, the author shows how the practices of development have infiltrated not only the state at large but many aspects of people's everyday lives.

Revue de presse

Will have a major impact in anthropology, development, science and technology and policy studies. ... [and] a significant influence on international development practitioners, policy makers and students of development. --Professor Steven Robins, Department of Sociology & Social Anthropology, University of Stellenbosch

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Éditeur
James Currey
Date d'édition
2014
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
184701108X
ISBN 13 
9781847011084
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
229
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