The State Must Be Our Master of Fire - How Peasants Craft Culturally Sustainable Development in Senegal

1. Auflage 2004
ISBN: 978-0-520-23591-5
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 331 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 144 mm x 202 mm, Gewicht: 462 g

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."

Autoren/Hrsg.

Galvan, Dennis C.

Galvan, Dennis

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Entwicklungsökonomie & Emerging Markets
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Afrikanische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Materielle Kultur, Wirtschaftsethnologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Illustrations
Tables
Acknowledgments
Maps

1. "Buying Rope Is a Young Man’s Job": Transformations of Culture and Institutions
2. The Serer of Siin: "Le type même du paysan africain"
3. "Tradition" in the Siin: Contested and Enmeshing
4. Land Pawning as a Response to the Standardization of Tenure
Transitions: The Siin Reordered
5. Two Romanticizations: Tenure Confusion after the National Domain Law
6. "The King Has Come—Now Everything Is Ruined": The Promise and Frustration of Syncretic Rural Democracy
7. Culturally Sustainable Development

Notes
Glossary
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Dennis C. Galvan is Associate Professor of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Oregon.