
Endangering Development
Politics, Projects, and Environment in Burkina Faso
Lars Engberg-Pedersen(Author)
Praeger Publishers Inc
Published on 28. February 2003
Book
Hardback
184 pages
978-0-275-97910-2 (ISBN)
Description
The politics of international intervention into rural areas is the subject of this insightful study. Using concrete cases drawn from fieldwork in rural Burkina Faso, Engberg-Pedersen shows how nongovernmental organizations' activities with women's groups, natural resource management projects, decentralization policies, and rural democratization advocates must enter an arena of local struggle for resources and status. He maintains that activists often seriously contradict rural people's practices and understandings of particular issues and how they should be organized. Thus, while societal conflicts and institutional contradictions are inescapable features of rural development, development assistance agents and scholars of democratization and political change in Africa largely ignore them.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
443 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-275-97910-2 (9780275979102)
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Person
LARS ENGBERG-PEDERSEN is Head of the International Department at the Danish Association for International Co-Operation.
Content
Preface by Lars Engberg-Pederson Introduction: Local Politics and Development Assistance Rulers and Ruled: A History of Political Repression Development Versus Politics: NGOs' Room for Manoevre in Yatenga Four Villages Institutional Contradictions: Customary Authority and Village Councils Village Politics and Natural Resource Management Conclusion: The Impasse of Rural Democratisation in Burkina Faso Bibliography Index