Endangering Development: Politics, Projects, and Environment in Burkina Faso

Lars Engberg-Pedersen

ISBN 10: 0275979105 / ISBN 13: 9780275979102

Published by Praeger Pub Text, 2003

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170 pages. 9.25x6.25x0.75 inches. In Stock.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Endangering Development: Politics, Projects, and Environment in Burkina Faso
• Publisher: Praeger Pub Text
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0275979105
• ISBN 13: 9780275979102
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.8 kilograms

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

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