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.
| ISBN: | 9781108739245 |
| Publication date: | 24th September 2020 |
| Author: | Felicitas Universiteit Gent, Belgium Becker |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 380 pages |
| Series: | African Studies |
| Genres: |
Development studies Poverty and precarity Rural planning and policy |
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.
The Politics of Poverty features in the following genres: Development studies, Poverty and precarity, Rural planning and policy
The Politics of Poverty is available in Paperback, Hardback
The Politics of Poverty was written by Felicitas Universiteit Gent, Belgium Becker and published by Cambridge University Press
The Politics of Poverty has 380 pages
Yes it is part of African Studies series