In this Book
- The State Must Be Our Master of Fire: How Peasants Craft Culturally Sustainable Development in Senegal
- Book
- 2004
- Published by: University of California Press
summary
Over several centuries, the Serer of the Siin region of Senegal developed a complex system of land tenure that resulted in a stable rural society, productive agriculture, and a well-managed ecosystem. Dennis Galvan tells the story of what happened when French colonial rulers, and later the government of the newly independent Senegal, imposed new systems of land tenure and cultivation on the Serer of Siin. Galvan's book is a painstaking and skillful autopsy of ruinous Western-style "rational" economic development policy forced upon a fragile, yet self-sustaining, society. It is also a disquieting demonstration of the general folly of such an approach and an attempt to articulate a better, more sensitive, and ultimately more productive model for change—a model Galvan calls "institutional syncretism."
Table of Contents
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- Illustrations
- pp. ix-x
- Acknowledgments
- pp. xiii-xiv
- Transitions: The Siin Reordered
- pp. 125-130
- 7. Culturally Sustainable Development
- pp. 209-228
- Bibliography
- pp. 279-300
Additional Information
ISBN
9780520929425
Related ISBN(s)
9780520235915
MARC Record
OCLC
55749675
Pages
331
Launched on MUSE
2014-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No