• Fixing the African state : recognition, politics, and community-based development in Tanzania
  • [NT 42944] Record Type: [NT 8598] Electronic resources : [NT 40817] monographic
    [NT 47348] Title Information: recognition, politics, and community-based development in Tanzania
    [NT 47261] Author: DillBrian Jeffrey, 1968-
    [NT 47351] Place of Publication: New York
    [NT 47263] Published: Palgrave Macmillan;
    [NT 47352] Year of Publication: 2013
    [NT 47264] Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 198 p.)ill. :
    [NT 47298] Series: Africa connects
    [NT 47266] Subject: Community development - Tanzania -
    [NT 47266] Subject: Community development - Political aspects - Tanzania -
    [NT 47266] Subject: Community development, Urban - Tanzania -
    [NT 47266] Subject: Community-based organizations - Tanzania -
    [NT 47266] Subject: Ethnology - Tanzania -
    [NT 47266] Subject: POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / City Planning & Urban Development -
    [NT 51458] Online resource: http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9781137281418
    [NT 47265] Notes: Description based on print version record.
    [NT 51398] Summary: "Fixing the African State" explains why the predominant approach to international development produces outcomes that are incompatible with its underlying assumptions and intended objectives. Drawing on extensive ethnographic research undertaken in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania over the past decade, Brian J. Dill examines the relationship between community participation in the development process and the exercise of state power. Although the primary objective of community-based and -driven development is to shift the balance of power from the state to the benefit of non-state actors, "Fixing the African State" shows that, in fact, what is strengthened is both the image of a coherent, efficacious, and autonomous state, and the capacity of the state apparatus to exercise authority.
    [NT 50961] ISBN: 9781137281418electronic bk.
    [NT 50961] ISBN: 1137281413electronic bk.
    [NT 60779] Content Note: "Developing" Dar es Salaam Life on the ground Recognizing community Rendering political Fixing the African state.
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