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The Resource African socialism in postcolonial Tanzania : between the village and the world, Priya Lal (Boston College), (electronic resource)

African socialism in postcolonial Tanzania : between the village and the world, Priya Lal (Boston College), (electronic resource)

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Drawing on a wide range of oral and written sources, this book tells the story of Tanzania's socialist experiment: the ujamaa villagization initiative of 1967–1975. Inaugurated shortly after independence, ujamaa ('familyhood' in Swahili) both invoked established socialist themes and departed from the existing global repertoire of development policy, seeking to reorganize the Tanzanian countryside into communal villages to achieve national development. Priya Lal investigates how Tanzanian leaders and rural people creatively envisioned ujamaa and documents how villagization unfolded on the ground, without affixing the project to a trajectory of inevitable failure. By forging an empirically rich and conceptually nuanced account of ujamaa, African Socialism in Postcolonial Tanzania restores a sense of possibility and process to the early years of African independence, refines prevailing theories of nation building and development, and expands our understanding of the 1960s and 70s world.--
Language
eng
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Extent
1 online resource (xv, 265 pages)
Contents
  • A postcolonial project in the Cold War world
  • Militants, mothers, and the national family
  • Uneven development and the region
  • Remembering villagization
Isbn
9781107104525
Link
https://eui.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781316221679
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African socialism in postcolonial Tanzania : between the village and the world
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African socialism in postcolonial Tanzania
Title remainder
between the village and the world
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Priya Lal (Boston College)
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Language
eng
Summary
Drawing on a wide range of oral and written sources, this book tells the story of Tanzania's socialist experiment: the ujamaa villagization initiative of 1967–1975. Inaugurated shortly after independence, ujamaa ('familyhood' in Swahili) both invoked established socialist themes and departed from the existing global repertoire of development policy, seeking to reorganize the Tanzanian countryside into communal villages to achieve national development. Priya Lal investigates how Tanzanian leaders and rural people creatively envisioned ujamaa and documents how villagization unfolded on the ground, without affixing the project to a trajectory of inevitable failure. By forging an empirically rich and conceptually nuanced account of ujamaa, African Socialism in Postcolonial Tanzania restores a sense of possibility and process to the early years of African independence, refines prevailing theories of nation building and development, and expands our understanding of the 1960s and 70s world.--
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non fiction
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Cambridge Social Sciences eBooks
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  • Ujamaa villages
  • Socialism
  • Rural development
  • Tanzania
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African socialism in postcolonial Tanzania : between the village and the world, Priya Lal (Boston College), (electronic resource)
Link
https://eui.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781316221679
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Contents
  • A postcolonial project in the Cold War world
  • Militants, mothers, and the national family
  • Uneven development and the region
  • Remembering villagization
Control code
CR9781316221679
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unknown
Extent
1 online resource (xv, 265 pages)
Form of item
online
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Use of this electronic resource may be governed by a license agreement which restricts use to the European University Institute community. Each user is responsible for limiting use to individual, non-commercial purposes, without systematically downloading, distributing, or retaining substantial portions of information, provided that all copyright and other proprietary notices contained on the materials are retained. The use of software, including scripts, agents, or robots, is generally prohibited and may result in the loss of access to these resources for the entire European University Institute community
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9781107104525
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computer
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rdamedia
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  • c
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digital, PDF file(s).
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remote
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(OCoLC)932018468
Label
African socialism in postcolonial Tanzania : between the village and the world, Priya Lal (Boston College), (electronic resource)
Link
https://eui.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781316221679
Publication
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online resource
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  • cr
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rdacarrier
Content category
text
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  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
  • A postcolonial project in the Cold War world
  • Militants, mothers, and the national family
  • Uneven development and the region
  • Remembering villagization
Control code
CR9781316221679
Dimensions
unknown
Extent
1 online resource (xv, 265 pages)
Form of item
online
Governing access note
Use of this electronic resource may be governed by a license agreement which restricts use to the European University Institute community. Each user is responsible for limiting use to individual, non-commercial purposes, without systematically downloading, distributing, or retaining substantial portions of information, provided that all copyright and other proprietary notices contained on the materials are retained. The use of software, including scripts, agents, or robots, is generally prohibited and may result in the loss of access to these resources for the entire European University Institute community
Isbn
9781107104525
Media category
computer
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • c
Other physical details
digital, PDF file(s).
Specific material designation
remote
System control number
(OCoLC)932018468

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