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SOCIALISM WITHOUT LIBERATION: Land Reclamation Projects in Guinea‐Bissau
Author(s) -
KOHNERT DIRK
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
sociologia ruralis
Language(s) - French
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.005
H-Index - 84
eISSN - 1467-9523
pISSN - 0038-0199
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9523.1988.tb01036.x
Subject(s) - land reclamation , citation , socialism , political science , history , humanities , geography , archaeology , law , art , communism , politics
One of the outstanding aims of most liberation movements has been to increase the economic well-being of their people, Guinea-Bissau being no exception in this respect. How far has the new Nation State succeeded in fulfilling this aim? A comparative analysis of the implementation of land reclamation projects during colonial and post-colonial times reveals astonishing similarities: especially the centralization of development efforts in the hands of administrators disconnected from the grassroots, lack of target group analysis and misconceptions about the aims and needs, as well as the resources, of the population involved in the development efforts, on the part of the administration. The effects of this negative conditioning process of 'development' over many years on the chances of cooperation between peasants and the administration are still largely unknown. Any development planner who wants to encourage the local population to take their future into their own hands, would have to take account of this negative conditioning process.Author's versionSocialisme sans lib\ue9ration: Projets de r\ue9habilitation des terres en Guin\ue9e-Bissau: Un des objectifs exceptionnelle de la plupart des mouvements de lib\ue9ration a \ue9t\ue9 d'accro\ueetre le bien-\ueatre \ue9conomique de leur peuple. La Guin\ue9e-Bissau ne fait pas exception \ue0 cet \ue9gard. Dans quelle mesure le nouvel \uc9tat Nation r\ue9ussi \ue0 remplir cet objectif? Une analyse comparative de la mise en valeur des projets de r\ue9habilitation des terres pendant la p\ue9riode coloniale et post-coloniale r\ue9v\ue8le des similitudes \ue9tonnantes: notamment la centralisation des efforts de d\ue9veloppement dans les mains des administrateurs d\ue9connect\ue9s de la base, le manque d'analyse du groupe cible et des id\ue9es fausses sur les objectifs et les besoins, ainsi que les ressources, de la population impliqu\ue9e dans les efforts de d\ue9veloppement, de la part de l'administration. Les effets de ce processus de conditionnement n\ue9gatif du \uabd\ue9veloppement\ubb depuis de nombreuses ann\ue9es sur les chances de la coop\ue9ration entre les paysans et l'administration sont encore largement inconnu. Tout planificateur du d\ue9veloppement qui veut encourager la population locale \ue0 prendre leur avenir en mains propres, devra tenir compte de ce processus de conditionnement n\ue9gatif