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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Dill, B

Titel

Fixing the African State: Recognition, Politics, and Community-Based Development in Tanzania

Auflage

1st ed.

Ort / Verlag

New York: Palgrave Macmillan

Erscheinungsjahr

2013

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Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• 01 02 Fixing the African State explains why the predominant approach to international development produces outcomes that are incompatible with its underlying assumptions and intended objectives. Drawing on extensive ethnographic research undertaken in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania over the past decade, Brian J. Dill examines the relationship between community participation in the development process and the exercise of state power. Although the primary objective of community-based and -driven development is to shift the balance of power from the state to the benefit of non-state actors, Fixing the African State shows that, in fact, what is strengthened is both the image of a coherent, efficacious, and autonomous state, and the capacity of the state apparatus to exercise authority. 04 02 1. "Developing" Dar es Salaam 2. Life on the Ground 3. Recognizing Community 4. Rendering Political 5. Fixing the State 31 02 A study of why community-based/community-driven development produces outcomes that are incompatible with its underlying assumptions and intended objectives, using neoliberal development in Dar es Salaam as a defining example. 13 02 Brian Dill is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA. 02 02 'Community-based development' (CBD) or'community-driven development' (CDD) has been the predominant approach to international development in recent years. Drawing on fieldwork and first-hand experience, this book explains why CBD/CDD produces outcomes that are incompatible with its underlying assumptions and intended objectives. 19 02 1) PROVOCATIVE THESIS: Brian Dill argues that the neoliberal assault on the state has in fact helped to reinforce the state's image of coherence. 2) THOROUGHLY RESEARCHED: The book draws extensively on both historical and current literature, as well as eye-opening fieldwork conducted in Dar es Salaam. 3) VALUABLE CASE STUDY: Through his analysis of Dar es Salaam, Dill is able to construct a model applicable to neoliberal development across Africa. 08 02 to come