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Title: The Development State
Condition: New
EAN: 9781847011084
ISBN: 9781847011084
Publisher: James Currey
Format: Paperback
Release Date: 11/20/2014
Item Height: 216mm
Item Length: 140mm
Author: Maia Green
Language: English
Subtitle: Aid, Culture and Civil Society in Tanzania
ISBN-10: 184701108X
Description: A timely, ethnographically informed account of the "development state" of Tanzania, showing how development practice and culture have become integrated into everyday life, politically, socially and economically.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 personallives? 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.
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Genre: Society & Culture
Book Series: African Issues
Topic: Social Sciences
Release Year: 2014

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