The state must be our master of fire : how peasants craft sustainable development in Senegal /
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Author / Creator: | Galvan, Dennis Charles. |
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Imprint: | Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2004. |
Description: | 1 online resource (xiv, 317 pages) : illustrations, maps |
Language: | English |
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Format: | E-Resource Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11129311 |
Summary: | Over several centuries, the Serer of the Siin region of Senegal developed a complex system of land tenure that resulted in a stable rural society, productive agriculture, and a well-managed ecosystem. Dennis Galvan tells the story of what happened when French colonial rulers, and later the government of the newly independent Senegal, imposed new systems of land tenure and cultivation on the Serer of Siin. Galvan's book is a painstaking and skillful autopsy of ruinous Western-style "rational" economic development policy forced upon a fragile, yet self-sustaining, society. It is also a disquieting demonstration of the general folly of such an approach and an attempt to articulate a better, more sensitive, and ultimately more productive model for change--a model Galvan calls "institutional syncretism." |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiv, 317 pages) : illustrations, maps |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-299) and index. |
ISBN: | 9780520929425 052092942X 1417520124 9781417520121 0520227786 9780520227781 0520235916 9780520235915 1282356976 9781282356979 9786612356971 6612356979 1597349194 9781597349192 |