ISBN:
1847010687
,
9781847010681
Language:
English
Pages:
XI, 212 S.
,
graph. Darst., Kt.
Series Statement:
Western Africa series
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Dafinger, Andreas The economics of ethnic conflict
Keywords:
Minderheitenfrage
;
Landwirtschaft
;
Wirtschaftsentwicklung
;
Burkina Faso
;
Rural development / Burkina Faso
;
Burkina Faso / Rural conditions
;
Burkina Faso / Economic policy
;
Burkina Faso / Economic conditions
;
Burkina Faso
;
Landwirtschaft
;
Wirtschaftsentwicklung
;
Minderheitenfrage
Abstract:
Through anthropological case studies of the rural economics and administrative policies in Burkina Faso, and reassessment of current models of conflict, resource management and modern administration, this book explores the current political, economic and social transformation of Western Africa. Ethnic tensions, the case studies suggest, are a strategic part of social and economic local relations - a pattern that is repeated when ethnic stereotyping finds its way into the higher echelons of national administration and of international development cooperation. Conflicts are shown to be ethnicized by local and administrative elites, creating screens impenetrable to those involved in the states' formal administration, and behind which informal local economies thrive. In these 'concealed economies' individuals exploit the ethnic divide by hiding friendly and profitable inter-ethnic relations behind a rhetoric of ethnic tensions and staged conflict. Cultivating ties across ethnic divides is not limited, however, to rural relations but becomes common practice at almost all levels of national and civil administration
Description / Table of Contents:
The logic of global relations: Burkina Faso, Boulgou and the world -- Sharing the land : the ethnic division of labour -- Conflict -- Concealed economies : the hidden dimension of conflict and cooperation.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
