The Anti-Politics Machine: 'Development', Depoliticization and Bureaucratic Power in LesothoThe book is a case study of development in the Thaba-Tseka district of Lesotho during the period 1975 to 1984. It looks at the workings of the development industry in the country and in particular at one development project. The book looks at the way specific ideas about development are generated and deployed by development agencies, and the effects of these ideas in the outcome of the schemes. |
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
the constitution | 25 |
the Thaba | 74 |
aspects of economy | 103 |
a study | 135 |
Livestock development | 169 |
The decentralization debacle | 194 |
Crop development and some other | 228 |
The antipolitics machine | 251 |
Epilogue | 279 |
Notes | 289 |
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Common terms and phrases
activities agencies agricultural analysis animals apparatus auctions bantustans Basotho bridewealth bureaucratic cash economy cattle Chapter CIDA claims Colin Murray commercial Committee crop decentralization development project discourse discussed District Coordinator District Development Division Dutkiewicz economic effects employment export fact FAO/World Bank 1975 farmers farming figures fund Government of Lesotho grazing association Health herd household important improved stock income industry integrated interests interventions land Leribe livestock livestock practices maize Maseru Mashai ment migrant labor mines Ministries Mosotho mountain Murray Mystique Officer peasant percent Phase planners political population poverty production Programme Project Coordinator question reasons relations relations of production rural development sell simply social society Sotho South Africa staff stock owners structure subsistence technical Thaba Thaba Bosiu Thaba-Tseka District Thaba-Tseka Project traditional transformation Tseka TTCC USAID velopment village wage labor women woodlots workers World Bank World Bank 1975 World Bank Report