Cargando…
Village Work : Development and Rural Statecraft in Twentieth-Century Ghana /
"Combining oral histories with decades of archival material, Village Work formulates a sweeping history of twentieth-century statecraft that centers on the daily work of rural people, local officials, and family networks, rather than on the national governments and large-scale plans that often...
| Autor principal: | |
|---|---|
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
| Publicado: |
Athens, Ohio :
Ohio University Press,
[2021]
|
| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
|
| Temas: | |
| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
MARC
| LEADER | 00000cam a22000004a 4500 | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 001 | musev2_110594 | ||
| 003 | MdBmJHUP | ||
| 005 | 20230905054458.0 | ||
| 006 | m o d | ||
| 007 | cr||||||||nn|n | ||
| 008 | 201027s2021 ohu o 00 0 eng d | ||
| 010 | |z 2020048200 | ||
| 020 | |a 9780821447376 | ||
| 020 | |z 9780821424667 | ||
| 020 | |z 9780821424452 | ||
| 035 | |a (OCoLC)1221015834 | ||
| 040 | |a MdBmJHUP |c MdBmJHUP | ||
| 100 | 1 | |a Wiemers, Alice, |d 1982- |e author. | |
| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Village Work : |b Development and Rural Statecraft in Twentieth-Century Ghana / |c Alice Wiemers. |
| 264 | 1 | |a Athens, Ohio : |b Ohio University Press, |c [2021] | |
| 264 | 3 | |a Baltimore, Md. : |b Project MUSE, |c 2023 | |
| 264 | 4 | |c ©[2021] | |
| 300 | |a 1 online resource (250 pages). | ||
| 336 | |a text |b txt |2 rdacontent | ||
| 337 | |a computer |b c |2 rdamedia | ||
| 338 | |a online resource |b cr |2 rdacarrier | ||
| 490 | 0 | |a New African histories | |
| 505 | 0 | |a Introduction. Villages and States in Twentieth-Century Ghana -- Labor, Chieftaincy, and Colonial Statecraft -- Statecraft and Village Development in "Nkrumah's Time" -- Labor and Statecraft in a Chiefly Family -- Improvising Government in the Granary of Ghana: 1966-1981 -- Project Village: Government by Village Work, 1982-1992 -- Conclusion. | |
| 520 | |a "Combining oral histories with decades of archival material, Village Work formulates a sweeping history of twentieth-century statecraft that centers on the daily work of rural people, local officials, and family networks, rather than on the national governments and large-scale plans that often dominate development stories. Wiemers shows that developmentalism was not simply created by governments and imposed on the governed; instead, it was jointly constructed through interactions between them. The book contributes to the historiographies of development and statecraft in Africa and the Global South by emphasizing the piecemeal, contingent, and largely improvised ways both development and the state are comprised and experienced, providing new entry points into longstanding discussions about developmental power and discourse, unsettling common ideas about how and by whom states are made, exposing the importance of unpaid labor in mediating relationships between governments and the governed, showing how state engagement could both exacerbate and disrupt inequities. Despite massive changes in twentieth-century political structures-the imposition and destruction of colonial rule, nationalist plans for pan-African solidarity and modernization, multiple military coups, and the rise of neoliberal austerity policies-unremunerated labor and demonstrations of local leadership have remained central tools by which rural Ghanaians have interacted with the state. Grounding its analysis of statecraft in decades of daily negotiations over budgets and bureaucracy, the book tells the stories of developers who decided how and where projects would be sited, of constituents who performed labor, and of a chief and his large cadre of educated children who met and shaped demands for local leaders. For a variety of actors, invoking "the village" became a convenient way to allocate or attract limited resources, to highlight or downplay struggles over power, and to forge national and international networks"-- |c Provided by publisher | ||
| 588 | |a Description based on print version record. | ||
| 650 | 7 | |a Politics and government. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst01919741 | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Local government. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst01001300 | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Economic development. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst00901785 | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Central-local government relations. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst00850795 | |
| 650 | 6 | |a Developpement economique |z Ghāna. | |
| 650 | 6 | |a Relations gouvernement central-collectivites locales |z Ghāna. | |
| 650 | 6 | |a Administration locale |z Ghāna. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Economic development |z Ghana. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Central-local government relations |z Ghana. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Local government |z Ghana. | |
| 651 | 7 | |a Ghana. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst01208741 | |
| 651 | 6 | |a Ghāna |x Politique et gouvernement |y 20e siecle. | |
| 651 | 0 | |a Ghana |x Politics and government |y 20th century. | |
| 655 | 7 | |a Electronic books. |2 local | |
| 710 | 2 | |a Project Muse. |e distributor | |
| 830 | 0 | |a Book collections on Project MUSE. | |
| 856 | 4 | 0 | |z Texto completo |u https://projectmuse.uam.elogim.com/book/110594/ |
| 945 | |a Project MUSE - Custom Collection | ||
| 945 | |a Project MUSE - 2023 Annual Backfile - Unpurchased | ||