The Politics of Poverty: Policy-Making and Development in Rural Tanzania (African Studies, 143, Band 143) - Hardcover

Becker, Felicitas

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1108496938 ISBN 13: 9781108496933

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 2019

Inhaltsangabe

An examination of poverty dynamics and developmental failure, shifting emphasis from development as control to development as coping strategy.

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Felicitas Becker is Professor of African history at Ghent University, and has previously taught at School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, and the University of Cambridge. Her Ph.D. thesis from the University of Cambridge won the Ellen MacArthur Prize in economic history, and her first book, Becoming Muslim in Mainland Tanzania, 1890-2000 (2008), obtained a British Academy postdoctoral fellowship publication award. She is currently working on the interaction between notions of progress used in development discourse and those deployed by religious reformers in East Africa.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2019
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1108496938
• ISBN 13: 9781108496933
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 382
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