The politics of poverty : policy-making and development in rural Tanzania / Felicitas Becker.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Becker, Felicitas, 1971- author.

Series:

African studies series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rural poor--Tanzania.

Rural poor.

Poverty--Political aspects--Tanzania.

Poverty.

Food supply--Political aspects--Tanzania.

Food supply.

Rural development--Tanzania.

Rural development.

Social policy.

Rural conditions.

Food supply--Political aspects.

Poverty--Political aspects.

Tanzania.

Tanzania--Rural conditions.

Tanzania--Economic policy.

Economic policy.

Tanzania--Social policy.

Physical Description:

vi, 366 pages : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2019.

Summary:

"How is it that rural poverty in southern Tanzania appears both easy to explain and yet also mystifying? Why is it that 'development' is such a touchstone, when actual attempts at fostering development have been largely ephemeral and/or unpopular for decades? In this book, Felicitas Becker traces dynamics of rural poverty based on the exportation of foodstuffs rather than the better-known problems connected to exportation of migrant labour, and examines what has kept the development industry going despite its failure to break these dynamics. Becker argues that development planners often exaggerated their prospects to secure funding, repackaged old strategies as new to maintain their promise, and shifted blame onto rural Africans for failing to meet the expectations they had raised. But the rural poor, too, pursued conversations on the causes and morality of poverty and wealth. Despite their dependence and deprivation, officials found repeatedly that they could not take them for granted"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

The end of slavery, famine and food aid in Tunduru

Changing configurations of poverty in the colonial southeast and the myth of communalism

The struggle to trade

Independence and the rhetoric of feasibility

Villagisation and the pursuit of market access

The politics of development in the era of liberalisation

Performing and pursuing development in Kineng'ene.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Becker, Felicitas, 1971- author. Politics of poverty

ISBN:

9781108496933

1108496938

OCLC:

1088643324