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Sommario
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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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.
Riassunto
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.
