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Informationen zum Autor Peter D. Little is Professor and Chair of Anthropology and Director of the Program in Development Studies at Emory University. Klappentext Peter D. Little is Professor and Chair of Anthropology and Director of the Program in Development Studies at Emory University. "Simply put, it's the most daring book I have read on African development." - Abdi I. Samatar, University of Minnesota Zusammenfassung Book explores the contradictions between what policy reforms were supposed to do and what actually happened in local communities Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Introduction: What it means to be "Reformed?" 1. 'They Think We Can Manufacture Crops:' Contract Farming and the Non-Traditional Commodity Business 2. 'Everybody is a Petty Trader:' Peri-Urban Trade in Post-Conflict Maputo, Mozambique 3. 'We Now Milk Elephants:' The Community Conservation Business in Rural Kenya 4. 'They are Beating Us Over the Head with Democracy:' Multi-Party Elections in Rural Kenya 5. 'The Government is always telling us what to think:' Narratives of food aid dependence in rural Ethiopia 6. 'Counting the poor:' The politics of pastoralist poverty assessments in Kenya 7. 'A sort of free business:' Stateless Somalia and a hyper-liberalized economy Conclusions: Rethinking encounters and reformist narratives Notes Bibliography Index
