1st Edition

Resistance to Modernization in Africa Journey Among Peasants and Nomads

Edited By Giordano Sivini Copyright 2007
238 Pages
by Routledge

244 Pages
by Routledge

238 Pages
by Routledge

Giordano Sivini has been an international aid consultant for over twenty-five years. Here he channels a 1960s and 1970s idealistic political commitment into fieldwork and the sphere of development from the 1980s to the present. Sivini writes with both passion and cynicism about his experiences with the numerous African aid projects he has been involved with over the years.While the "fathers of... Read more
1. People and Development, 2. The Regimentation of the Peasants, 3. The Government’s Obsession with Nomads’ Cattle, 4. Concentration in Villages, 5. The Resettlement of Peoples, 6. Hard Labor on the State Farms, 7. Off the Land, 8. Economy and Politics in Underdevelopment, Afterword, Index

Biography

Giordano Sivini