Negotiating development : African farmers and colonial experts at the Office du Niger, 1920-1960
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Negotiating development : African farmers and colonial experts at the Office du Niger, 1920-1960
（Social history of Africa）
Heinemann , James Currey , David Philip, c2002
- James Currey : cloth
- James Currey : paper
- Heinemann : cloth
- Heinemann : paper
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
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James Currey : paper ISBN 9780852556498
Description
An in-depth examination of the interaction between French colonial development theory and practice at the Office du Niger in what was then French Soudan (Mali).
Focusing on the Office du Niger's irrigation project in what was then French Soudan (Mali), the author analyses how and why development policies emerge, persist and change. Van Beusekom argues that Africans not only influenced farming and marketing practices, but also re-shaped French concepts of rural development, as well as transforming French colonial perceptions of Africans and African societies. Of importance to historians of colonialism in African as well as to scholars, students and policy makers working on issues of development theory and practice.
North America: Heinemann
Table of Contents
Introduction - Rice & cotton: neomercantilism, social welfare & the shaping of the Office du Niger - Colonisation Indigene: French rural development ideology at the Office du Niger, 1920-1940 - The recruitment of settlers for the Office du Niger - Coercion & poverty at the Office du Niger - Negotiating farming & marketing practices at the Office du Niger - Participation contested & redefined: farmer resistance & ideas about development at the Office du Niger - Conclusion - Appendix: A Note on Sources
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James Currey : cloth ISBN 9780852556993
Description
An in-depth examination of the interaction between French colonial development theory and practice at the Office du Niger in what was then French Soudan (Mali). - Focusing on the Office du Niger's irrigation project it analyses how and why development policies emerge, persist and change - The author argues that Africans not only influenced farming and marketing practices, but also re-shaped French concepts of rural development, as well as transforming French colonial perceptions of Africans and African societies. - Of importance to historians of colonialism in African as well as to scholars, students and policy makers working on issues of development theory and practice.
Table of Contents
Introduction - Rice & cotton: neomercantilism, social welfare & the shaping of the Office du Niger - Colonisation Indigene: French rural development ideology at the Office du Niger, 1920-1940 - The recruitment of settlers for the Office du Niger - Coercion & poverty at the Office du Niger - Negotiating farming & marketing practices at the Office du Niger - Participation contested & redefined: farmer resistance & ideas about development at the Office du Niger - Conclusion - Appendix: A Note on Sources
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