The Development State

Aid, Culture and Civil Society in Tanzania
Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-1-84701-108-4
Verlag: Boydell & Brewer

Buch, Englisch, Band 35, 229 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 136 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 341 g

Reihe: African Issues

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Green, Maia

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Afrikanische Geschichte
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Regionalwissenschaften, Regionalstudien
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Staatsbürgerkunde, Staatsbürgerschaft, Zivilgesellschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
Tanzania: A Development State
Participating in Development: Projects and Agency in Tanzania
Decentralising Development
Globalising Development through Participatory Project Management
Making Development Agents: Nationalising Participation in Tanzania
Localising Development: Civil Society as Social Capital after Socialism
Anticipatory Development: Building Civil Society in Tanzania
Development Templates: Modernising Anti-Witchcraft Services in Southern Tanzania
Making Middle Income: New Development Citizenships in Tanzania
Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Maia Green is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Manchester.