A01=Dennis C. Galvan
A01=Dennis Galvan
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agriculture
Author_Dennis C. Galvan
Author_Dennis Galvan
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change
colonial
colonial rulers
colonialism
ecology
economics
ecosystem
ecosystems
environmentalism
environmentalist
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land cultivation
land tenure
land use
productive agriculture
regional
rural community
rural land
rural society
scholarly
senegal
social change
social justice
social studies
society
sustainability
transformation
Product details
- ISBN 9780520235915
- Weight: 454g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 17 Jun 2004
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Over several centuries, the Serer of the Siin region of Senegal developed a complex system of land tenure that resulted in a stable rural society, productive agriculture, and a well-managed ecosystem. Dennis Galvan tells the story of what happened when French colonial rulers, and later the government of the newly independent Senegal, imposed new systems of land tenure and cultivation on the Serer of Siin. Galvan's book is a painstaking and skillful autopsy of ruinous Western-style "rational" economic development policy forced upon a fragile, yet self-sustaining, society. It is also a disquieting demonstration of the general folly of such an approach and an attempt to articulate a better, more sensitive, and ultimately more productive model for change--a model Galvan calls "institutional syncretism."
Dennis C. Galvan is Associate Professor of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Oregon.
