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Endangering Development Politics, Projects, and Environment in Burkina Faso

Lars Engberg-Pedersen

ISBN: 0-275-97910-5

ISBN-13: 978-0-275-97910-2

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184 pages

Praeger Publishers

Publication: 2/28/2003

List Price: $86.95 (UK Sterling Price: £59.95)

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Media Type: Hardcover

Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4

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Description: The politics of international intervention into rural areas is the subject of this insightful study. Using concrete cases drawn from fieldwork in rural Burkina Faso, Engberg-Pedersen shows how nongovernmental organizations' activities with women's groups, natural resource management projects, decentralization policies, and rural democratization advocates must enter an arena of local struggle for resources and status. He maintains that activists often seriously contradict rural people's practices and understandings of particular issues and how they should be organized. Thus, while societal conflicts and institutional contradictions are inescapable features of rural development, development assistance agents and scholars of democratization and political change in Africa largely ignore them.

Table of Contents:

Preface by Lars Engberg-Pederson
Introduction: Local Politics and Development Assistance
Rulers and Ruled: A History of Political Repression
Development Versus Politics: NGOs' Room for Manoevre in Yatenga
Four Villages
Institutional Contradictions: Customary Authority and Village Councils
Village Politics and Natural Resource Management
Conclusion: The Impasse of Rural Democratisation in Burkina Faso
Bibliography
Index

About the Author: LARS ENGBERG-PEDERSEN is Head of the International Department at the Danish Association for International Co-Operation.

LCC Class: 307


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