The state must be our master of fire [[electronic resource] ] : how peasants craft sustainable development in Senegal / / Dennis C. Galvan
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| Autore: |
Galvan Dennis Charles
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| Titolo: |
The state must be our master of fire [[electronic resource] ] : how peasants craft sustainable development in Senegal / / Dennis C. Galvan
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| Pubblicazione: | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2004 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (336 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 333.3/089/96321 |
| Soggetto topico: | Land tenure - Senegal - Sine-Saloum - History |
| Serer (African people) - Government relations | |
| Acculturation - Senegal | |
| Soggetto geografico: | Sine-Saloum (Senegal) Social conditions |
| Sine-Saloum (Senegal) Economic conditions | |
| Soggetto non controllato: | academic |
| agriculture | |
| change | |
| colonial rulers | |
| colonial | |
| colonialism | |
| ecology | |
| economics | |
| ecosystem | |
| ecosystems | |
| environmentalism | |
| environmentalist | |
| land cultivation | |
| land tenure | |
| land use | |
| productive agriculture | |
| regional | |
| rural community | |
| rural land | |
| rural society | |
| scholarly | |
| senegal | |
| social change | |
| social justice | |
| social studies | |
| society | |
| sustainability | |
| transformation | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Buying rope is now a young man's job -- The Serer of Siin -- Contested and enmeshing -- Land pawning as a response to the standardization of tenure -- Two romanticizations -- The king has come : now everything is ruined -- Culturally sustainable development. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Over several centuries, the Serer of the Siin region of Senegal developed a complex system of land tenure that resulted in a stable rural society, productive agriculture, and a well-managed ecosystem. Dennis Galvan tells the story of what happened when French colonial rulers, and later the government of the newly independent Senegal, imposed new systems of land tenure and cultivation on the Serer of Siin. Galvan's book is a painstaking and skillful autopsy of ruinous Western-style "rational" economic development policy forced upon a fragile, yet self-sustaining, society. It is also a disquieting demonstration of the general folly of such an approach and an attempt to articulate a better, more sensitive, and ultimately more productive model for change-a model Galvan calls "institutional syncretism." |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The state must be our master of fire |
| ISBN: | 1-282-35697-6 |
| 9786612356971 | |
| 0-520-92942-X | |
| 1-59734-919-4 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910782920003321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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