Developing Africa (eBook, ePUB)

Concepts and practices in twentieth-century colonialism
Redaktion: Hodge, Joseph; Kopf, Martina; Hodl, Gerald

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Produktbeschreibung

Investigates development in British, French and Portuguese colonial Africa during the last decades of colonial rule

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: NYU Press
• Seitenzahl: 432
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Mai 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526110862
• Artikelnr.: 48795058

Autorenporträt

Joseph M. Hodge is Associate Professor in the Department of History at West Virginia University Gerald Hödl is an Independent Scholar Martina Kopf is Lecturer in African Studies and Development Studies at the University of Vienna

Inhaltsangabe

General editor's introduction Introduction - Joseph Hodge and Gerald Hödl
Part I: Meanings of development in twentieth-century colonialism 1. From
dead end to new lease of life: development in South-Eastern Tanganyika from
the late 1930s to the 1950s - Juhani Koponen 2. Developing 'Portuguese
Africa' in late colonialism: confronting discourses - Cláudia Castelo 3. A
history of maendeleo: the concept of 'development' in Tanganyika's late
colonial public sphere - Emma Hunter Part II: Economic and rural
development 4. The 'private'face of African development planning during the
Second World War - Billy Frank 5. Ecological concepts of development? The
case of colonial Zambia - Sven Speek 6. Developing rural Africa: rural
development discourse in colonial Zimbabwe, 1944-79 - E.Kushinga Makombe 7.
The tractor as a tool of development? The mythologies and legacies of
mechanised tropical agriculture in French Africa, 1944-56 - Céline Pessis
Part III: Social development and welfare 8. From precondition to goal of
development: health and medicine in the planning and politics of British
Tanganyika - Walter Bruchhausen 9. 'Keystone of progress' and mise en
valeur d'ensemble: British and French colonial discourses on education for
development in the interwar period - Walter Schicho 10. Development and
education in British colonial Nigeria, 1940-55 - Uyilawa Usuanlele 11.
Motherhood, morality, and social order: gender and development discourse
and practice in late colonial Africa - Barbara Bush Part IV:
Discourse-analytical and literary perspectives on colonial development 12.
The world the Portuguese developed: racial politics, Luso-tropicalism, and
development discourse in late Portuguese colonialism - Caio Simões de
Araújoand Iolanda Vasile 13. Notions of 'développement' in French colonial
discourses: changes in discursive practices and their social implications -
Françoise Dufour 14. Developing Africa in the colonial imagination:
European and African narrative writing of the interwar period - Martina
Kopf Epilogue: Taking stock, looking ahead - Joseph Hodge Bibliography
Index