Economic and political reform in Africa : : anthropological perspectives / / Peter D. Little.
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| Place / Publishing House: | Bloomington : : Indiana University Press,, [2014] 2014 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (258 pages) |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : what it means to be "reformed"
- "They think we can manufacture crops" : contract farming and the nontraditional commodity business
- "Everybody is a petty trader" : peri-urban trade in postconflict Maputo, Mozambique
- "We now milk elephants" : the community conservation business in rural Kenya
- "They are beating us over the head with democracy" : multiparty elections in rural Kenya
- "The government is always telling us what to think" : narratives of food aid dependence in rural Ethiopia
- "Counting the poor" : the politics of pastoralist poverty assessments in Kenya
- "A sort of free business" : hyper-liberalization and Somali transnationalism
- Conclusions : rethinking encounters and reformist narratives.