Hodge / Unknown / Hodl Developing Africa

Concepts and practices in twentieth-century colonialism
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-5261-1087-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet

E-Book, Englisch, Band 115, 432 Seiten

Reihe: Studies in Imperialism

Investigates development in British, French and Portuguese colonial Africa during the last decades of colonial rule

Autoren/Hrsg.

Unknown,

Hodge, Joseph

Hodl, Gerald

Kopf, Martina

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kolonialgeschichte, Geschichte des Imperialismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Kolonialismus, Imperialismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Diplomatie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Afrikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

General editor’s introduction
Introduction – Joseph Hodge and Gerald Hödl
PART I: Meanings of development in twentieth-century colonialism
1. From dead end to new lease of life: development in South-Eastern Tanganyika from the late 1930s to the 1950s – Juhani Koponen
2. Developing ‘Portuguese Africa’ in late colonialism: confronting discourses – Cláudia Castelo
3. A history of maendeleo: the concept of ‘development’ in Tanganyika’s late colonial public sphere – Emma Hunter
PART II: Economic and rural development
4. The ‘private’face of African development planning during the Second World War – Billy Frank
5. Ecological concepts of development? The case of colonial Zambia – Sven Speek
6. Developing rural Africa: rural development discourse in colonial Zimbabwe, 1944–79 – E.Kushinga Makombe
7. The tractor as a tool of development? The mythologies and legacies of mechanised tropical agriculture in French Africa, 1944–56 – Céline Pessis
PART III: Social development and welfare
8. From precondition to goal of development: health and medicine in the planning and politics of British Tanganyika – Walter Bruchhausen
9. ‘Keystone of progress’ and mise en valeur d’ensemble: British and French colonial discourses on education for development in the interwar period – Walter Schicho
10. Development and education in British colonial Nigeria, 1940–55 – Uyilawa Usuanlele
11. Motherhood, morality, and social order: gender and development discourse and practice in late colonial Africa – Barbara Bush
PART IV: Discourse-analytical and literary perspectives on colonial development
12. The world the Portuguese developed: racial politics, Luso-tropicalism, and development discourse in late Portuguese colonialism – Caio Simões de Araújoand Iolanda Vasile
13. Notions of ‘développement’ in French colonial discourses: changes in discursive practices and their social implications – Françoise Dufour
14. Developing Africa in the colonial imagination: European and African narrative writing of the interwar period – Martina Kopf
Epilogue: taking stock, looking ahead – Joseph Hodge
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Hodge Joseph:
Joseph M. Hodge is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at West Virginia UniversityHodl Gerald:
Martina Kopf is a Lecturer in African Studies and Development Studies at the University of ViennaKopf Martina:
Gerald Hödl is an Independent ScholarJoseph M. Hodge is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at West Virginia University

Gerald Hödl is an Independent Scholar

Martina Kopf is a Lecturer in African Studies and Development Studies at the University of Vienna