Rural settlement structure and African development

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Rural settlement structure and African development

edited by Marilyn Silberfein

Westview Press, 1998

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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This book examines the role played by settlement patterns and processes in rural development in Africa. The contributors point out the unusual flexibility in the way African people arrange themselves in rural space, providing a mechanism for adjusting to changing circumstances such as population growth, commercialization of agriculture, and environmental degradation. They also highlight the manipulation of settlements by African governments as part of their development programs, arguing that these changes are usually designed to give government greater control of the countryside and invariably produce deleterious and unanticipated side effects. This book draws on the perspectives of geography and anthropology to provide a thorough examination of the role played by settlement patterns and processes in rural development in Africa. In particular, the contributors evaluate the way people arrange themselves in rural space. They find that although in many parts of the world, villages and homesteads have been a relatively stable element in the rural landscape, in Africa settlements have provided an unusually flexible mechanism for adjusting to changing circumstances. Population growth, commercialization of agriculture, and environmental degradation, for example, all have implications for settlement forms and processes.The discussions also focus on the manipulation of settlements by African governments as part of their development programs. According to the contributors, despite the official goals associated with such programs, their actual purpose has often been to expand government control of the countrysidewhile invariably producing deleterious and unanticipated side effects.

目次

  • Background To The Study Of Settlement
  • Introduction
  • (Marilyn Silberfein.)
  • The Geographic Study of Rural Settlements
  • (David Grossman and David Siddle.)
  • The Historical Perspective
  • The Origins of African Rural Settlement
  • (James
  • L. Newman.)
  • Cyclical Change in African
  • Settlement and Modern Resettlement Programs
  • (M. Silberfein.)
  • The Evolution Of Settlement Types: Some Case Studies
  • Settlement Concentration and Dispersal Among the Kofyar
  • (Glenn Davis Stone.)
  • The Role of Villages and
  • Ecological Constraints in Botswana
  • (R.M.K. Silitshena.)
  • Settlement Structure and Landscape Ecology in the Sahel: The Case of Northern Yatenga, Burkina Faso
  • (Robert E. Ford.)
  • Settlement Structure and Landscape Ecology in Humid Tropical Rwanda
  • (R. E. Ford.)
  • Rural Development Programs? The Role Of Settlement Systems
  • Participatory Development and Settlement in Southern Africa
  • (Edward C. Green and Raymond T. Isely.)
  • The Design of Community and Its Sociological Consequences: Marsabit District, Kenya
  • (Asmarom
  • Legesse.)
  • National Settlement Strategies
  • Rural Settlement Patterns in Zimbabwe and State Manipulation of the Settlement Structure
  • (Lovemore W. Zinyama.)
  • The Political Economy of Spatial Rationalization and Integration Policies in Tanzanian Villages
  • (Richard J. Massaro.)
  • Conclusions And Implications For The
  • Future
  • The Rural-Urban Nexus
  • (M. Silberfein.).

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