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Policy and Practice in Rural Tanzania - Grazing, Fishing and Farming at the Local-Global Interface (Hardcover)
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Policy and Practice in Rural Tanzania - Grazing, Fishing and Farming at the Local-Global Interface (Hardcover)
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A blend of old and new meanings Who are the rural people of Africa?
What does it mean to be part of a 'rural' community in contemporary
Tanzania? And why is it important to debate questions of African
rurality beyond the mere GDP contribution of rural land-based
production? This book seeks to address questions like these. Rural
people(s) in contemporary Africa are often conceived of in terms of
how to efficiently integrate them into international markets and
global value chains; this book analyses the question of integration
of rural people in Tanzania by delving into how they deal with
local-global connections and engage with policy objectives on their
own terms, between local forms of associational life and global
markets. In so doing, it explores local socio-economic dynamics
that find little space in the national and global policy vision of
a rural sector geared towards growth - a vision that is peculiar to
African states, including Tanzania. Informed by anthropological
theory and de-re-agrarianisation/de-re-peasantisation debates, and
grounded in ethnographic evidence, the book eschews 'orthodox'
approaches that see (rural) people as passive recipients of
policies, and policies as instruments of oppression. Instead, it
departs from the rural land/place-based practices of grazing,
fishing and farming to look at rurality in Tanzania as a blend of
old and new meanings, values and practices at the local-global
interface, continually reshuffled as rural people encounter
different social and economic spheres. As the world rediscovers the
urgency of questions connected to neo-colonialism and
de-colonisation, this book brings to the forefront the position,
worldview and ambitions of African rural peoples intersecting with
international policy models, visions and objectives.
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