Book contents
- The Politics of Poverty
- African Studies Series
- The Politics of Poverty
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Map
- Introduction
- 1 The End of Slavery, Famine, and Food Aid in Tunduru
- 2 Changing Configurations of Poverty in the Colonial Southeast and the Myth of Communalism
- 3 The Struggle to Trade
- 4 Independence and the Rhetoric of Feasibility
- 5 Villagisation and the Pursuit of Market Access
- 6 The Politics of Development in the Era of Liberalisation
- 7 Performing and Pursuing Development in Kineng’ene
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
- African Studies Series
7 - Performing and Pursuing Development in Kineng’ene
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 June 2019
- The Politics of Poverty
- African Studies Series
- The Politics of Poverty
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Map
- Introduction
- 1 The End of Slavery, Famine, and Food Aid in Tunduru
- 2 Changing Configurations of Poverty in the Colonial Southeast and the Myth of Communalism
- 3 The Struggle to Trade
- 4 Independence and the Rhetoric of Feasibility
- 5 Villagisation and the Pursuit of Market Access
- 6 The Politics of Development in the Era of Liberalisation
- 7 Performing and Pursuing Development in Kineng’ene
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
- African Studies Series
Summary
In Chapter 6, I have characterised rural development projects as part of a fluid, multisided interaction that, notwithstanding its dependence on misleading claims, its unpredictable outcomes and its contributions to victim-blaming, had its uses for both provincial officials and villagers. It helped the former stay relevant, and formed an unpredictable but appreciated part of villagers’ pursuit of livelihoods and status. This concluding chapter seeks to show these interactions at work by focusing on one site and one development NGO around 2000, and the way it was remembered a decade later. Rather than opposing experts’ claims about the benefits of participatory development to its actual political effects, it seeks to trace diverse and ambiguous outcomes by putting RIPS’s interventions in the context of local politics beyond the development arena, and of large-scale economic shifts.
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- The Politics of PovertyPolicy-Making and Development in Rural Tanzania, pp. 249 - 279Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019