Focusing on the distribution of benefits in relation to class, ethnicity, and gender, this book explores the methods to which the rural poor can organize themselves to participate in economic and social development and examines the roles that self-help organizations play in the political economy of Kenya. Dr. Thomas looks at the competition for pow
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Dr. Thomas looks at how self-help has served special political interests, has been used to legitimize and justify the political and economic systems of post-colonial Kenya, and has blurred class differences while permitting great inequities, and examines the ideological role of self-help in state formation.
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Preface -- Organizing the Rural Disadvantaged -- A Framework for Examining Self-Help: National, Historical, and Community Perspectives -- The Role of Self-Help in the Political Process -- Patterns of Access and Advantage in Self-Help: The Province, the District, and the Local Community -- Self-Help Community Projects: From Rhetoric to Reality -- Self-Help and Rural Stratification: Who Wins and Who Loses? -- Women's Self-Help Associations: Agents for Change or Techniques for Survival? -- Development Dilemmas: The Politics of Participation in Self-Help -- Epilogue Harambee Revisited, 1985
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780367299200
Publisert
2020-12-04
Utgiver
Vendor
Routledge
Vekt
460 gr
Høyde
233 mm
Bredde
144 mm
Aldersnivå
U, G, 05, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
228

Biografisk notat

Barbara P. Thomas is assistant professor and director of the Teaching Program in International Development and Social Change at Clark University. She spent ten years living in various countries in Africa and Asia, including three years in Kenya.