Government of Development: Peasants and Politicians in Postcolonial Tanzania

Awards:   Winner of Finalist, 2015 African Studies Association Ogot Award.
Author:   Leander Schneider
Publisher:   Indiana University Press
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9780253013996


Pages:   256
Publication Date:   17 September 2014
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Government of Development: Peasants and Politicians in Postcolonial Tanzania


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  • Winner of Finalist, 2015 African Studies Association Ogot Award.

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What drives state officials to force development projects on resisting ""beneficiary"" populations? In his new analysis of the Tanzanian state's 1960s and 1970s campaign to settle the country's rural population in socialist villages, Leander Schneider traces the discourses and practices that authorized state officials to direct the lives of peasants-by coercive means if necessary. Government of Development shows that the practices constituting this project's mode of government far exceeded political elites' pursuit of their own narrow interests, the go-to explanation for many accounts of similar instances of authoritarian rule and developmental failures in Africa and beyond.

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Author:   Leander Schneider
Publisher:   Indiana University Press
Imprint:   Indiana University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.404kg
ISBN:  

9780253013996


ISBN 10:   0253013992
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   17 September 2014
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Introduction 1. The Ruvuma Development Association: Tanzania's New Model Villages 2. Culture Clash: The Destruction of the Ruvuma Development Association 3. Chronicle of a Failure Foretold: State Officials' Developmentalist Authority in Action 4. Planning the Future: A Practice and Its Authority-Effects 5. The World of Officials in the Trenches, Potemkin Villages, and Criticism as Treason 6. The Brave Parsimonious World of Materialist-Utilitarian Analysis Epilogue Notes References Index

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Cogent, persuasive, and well-researched, Schneider successfully provides a nuanced and penetrating analysis that is woven into a compelling narrative. J. Michael Williams, University of San Diego--J. Michael Williams, University of San Diego


All students of Africa and of development should read Leander Schneider s superb analysis of Tanzanian rural policy under Nyerere. First, it sits absolutely atop the mountain of other studies of villagisation by virtue of its empirical mastery and analytical subtlety. Second, it represents a devastating critique of the fatal methodological simplifications that plague much of contemporary social science. James C. Scott, Yale University--James C. Scott, Yale University


No one in recent decades has written with such clarity and care about Tanzania and the rise and decline of its signal ujamaa vijijini policy as has Leander Schneider. Here, he views Tanzanian socialism more broadly, and in a suggestive, if controversial, comparative perspective, while also exploring the country s once bold plans for transformation and their fatally flawed execution. John S. Saul, York University and the University of Dar es Salaam--John S. Saul, York University and the University of Dar es Salaam


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Leander Schneider is Associate Professor of Political Science at Concordia University.

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