A “Grandiose Future for Italian Somalia”

Colonial Developmentalist Discourse, Agricultural Planning, and Forced Labor (1900–1940)

Datos Bibliográficos

ID9307009
AutoresAnnalisa Urbano (0000-0002-5229-7403, University of Bayreuth, autor de correspondencia)
Año2017
Volumen92
Páginas69-88
Fecha de publicación2017-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaInternational Labor and Working-Class History (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0147-5479 • E-ISSN: 1471-6445
EditorialCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0147547917000096
OpenAlexW2767752817
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas6
Referencias citadas20

This article explores the evolution of a developmentalist discourse for colonial Somalia and the attempts of the colonial government to present agricultural plans and labor policies as efforts to bring about social and economic development for colonial subjects and profit for colonial investors. In the long term, these efforts provided both a justification and a scope for the colonial venture. Fostering intensive farming and commercial agriculture, development planning institutionalized forced labor, disrupted the local production of foodstuff, and made the colony dependent on foreign imports

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