Michael Cowen
Biographic Data
| ID | 119170 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Cowen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Cowen |
| SIGNATURE | COWEN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | London Borough of Camden |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 124 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Doctrines Of Development
Doctrines of Development sets out a critique of the idea of practice of development by exploring the history of development theory and action from the early nineteenth century to the late twentieth century, from Britain to Quebec and Kenya.
Quakes of Development
The Great Arch: English State Formation as Cultural Revolution
The Renewed Search for Social Trusteeship: Cohen and Fitch on Social Justice and the City
It has become a commonplace to argue that in the face of a discredited Marxism, socialism must find an alternative basis for a renewed project. This article investigates two of these claims by Gerald Cohen and Bob Fitch. It does so with particular reference to the attempt by these authors to re-invoke, both wittingly and unwittingly, David Ricardo, John Stuart Mill, Henry George, and Auguste Comte among others as the source of a renewed left proj…
The History of Development: From Western Origins to Global Faith
Agrarian doctrines of development: Part II
Doctrines of development are understood through a distinction between intentional development and the immanent process of capitalist development. Agrarian doctrine consists of proposals, usually associated with official policy, to undertake agrarian schemes of development based on small-farm, household production. The intention is to compensate for mass unemployment, urban poverty and the threat of rural emigration. This article gives a historica…
Agrarian doctrines of development: Part I
Doctrines of development are understood through a distinction between intentional development and the immanent process of capitalist development. Agrarian doctrine consists of proposals, usually associated with official policy, to undertake agrarian schemes of development based on small-farm, household production. The intention is to compensate for mass unemployment, urban poverty and the threat of rural emigration. This article gives a historica…
An Overview of Election Studies in Africa
Since 1990, more than 30 sub-Saharan states have introduced multi-party electoral systems to choose their national governments. This development, normally understood as part of the post-cold war 'wave of democratisation', has led many to think that there is something intrinsically new about such a competitive process in Africa, which is not the case. This article looks at some elections that have been held in various states and studied, both befo…
Indigenous capital in Kenya: The 'Indian' dimension of debate
British Neo‐Hegelian Idealism and official colonial practice in Africa: The Oluwa Land case of 1921
Finance capital and peasants in Colonial West Africa: A reply to August Gächter
The Origin and Course of Fabian Colonialism in Africa
This article shows why and how the practices of Fabians in colonial Africa rested upon a socialist version of the doctrine of trusteeship. With its roots in nineteenth-century Comtean positivism, Fabian colonialism originated in an attempt to transcend the limits of Chamberlainite development as part of the radical-liberal reaction against the doctrine of development. The Labour Government's abortive colonial offensive of 1947 was unwittingly dra…
Bankers, peasants, and land in British West Africa 1905-37
It has been consistently argued by development practitioners that the absence of rural credit from banks is one of the most debilitating aspects of African rural life. It has also been argued by historians that European bankers in Africa deliberately discriminated against rural African credit seekers. In this article we argue that, over a period of three decades, British bankers attempted to create lending facilities which were to be directly aim…
Before and after Mau Mau in Kenya
Paul Collier and Deepak Lal, Labour and Poverty in Kenya, 1900-1980, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986. Pp.296. £27.50. Tabitha Kanogo, Squatters and the Roots of Mau Mau, London: James Currey, 1987. Pp.206. £25 and £8.95. David Throup, Economic and Social Origins of Mau Mau, 1945-1953, London: James Currey, 1987. Pp.304. £25 and £8.95. The author discusses three books on Kenya. Tabitha Kanogo's Squatters and the Roots of Mau Mau and Economic and Soc…
Black Africa 1945–80: Economic Decolonisation and Arrested Development
Journal Article Black Africa 1945–80: economic decolonisation and arrested development Get access Black Africa 1945–80: economic decolonisation and arrested development, by D. K. Fieldhouse. Allen and Unwin, London, 1986. xiv + 260 pp. £22.50 hardback, £9.95 paperback. ISBN 0 04 325017 3. M. P. COWEN M. P. COWEN City of London Polytechnic Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 86, Issue 34…
British Imperial Economic Policy During the War
This chapter examines the extent to which both the principle of total war and the experience of the Second World War reduced colonial autonomy and centralised imperial economic policy around the entity of a British national economy. The argument here is that British centralisation was accentuated during the war as the British government deliberately tried to regulate the use of sterling for international payments. If the use of international mone…
Change in state power, international conditions and peasant producers: The case of Kenya
Arguments for food self‐sufficiency at the level of small‐scale farms invariably refer to the need for national self‐sufficiency. This article shows that state‐inspired attempts to impose self‐sufficiency upon specialised middle peasant producers in Kenya have had the effect of reducing the supply of marketed food and increasing food imports. A change in the character of presidential power has also inhibited food production by large‐scale farms a…
Shorter Notices
Some recent East African peasant studies
Torben Bager, Marketing Cooperatives and Peasants in Kenya Scandinavian Institute of African Studies, Uppsala, 1980, pp. 116. Ño price. John Carlsen, Economic and Social transformation in Rural Kenya Scandinavian Institute of African Studies, Uppsala, 1980, pp. 230. No price. Frederick Cooper, From Slaves to Squatters: Plantation Labour and Agriculture in Zanzibar and Coastal Kenya, 1890-1925, Yale University Press, New Haven, 1980, pp. 328, £15.…
The agrarian problem: Notes on the Nairobi discussion
The following points are intended as a contribution to the debate on the subordination of the peasantry to capital. First Njonjo's (1977) conjunctural study of the development of agrarian capitalism in Kenya does not provide any substantial distinction between property ownership and capital. Hence, his basis for supposing an alliance between the indigenous class of capital and peasant proprietors is very tenuous and limited. This is because of th…
Books/Livres
The Organisation of Production as a Space-Modelling Mechanism in Underdeveloped Countries: The Case of Tea Production in Kenya
The Origin and Course of Fabian Colonialism in Africa
This article shows why and how the practices of Fabians in colonial Africa rested upon a socialist version of the doctrine of trusteeship. With its roots in nineteenth-century Comtean positivism, Fabian colonialism originated in an attempt to transcend the limits of Chamberlainite development as part of the radical-liberal reaction against the doctrine of development. The Labour Government's abortive colonial offensive of 1947 was unwittingly dra…
Agrarian doctrines of development: Part I
Doctrines of development are understood through a distinction between intentional development and the immanent process of capitalist development. Agrarian doctrine consists of proposals, usually associated with official policy, to undertake agrarian schemes of development based on small-farm, household production. The intention is to compensate for mass unemployment, urban poverty and the threat of rural emigration. This article gives a historica…
Agrarian doctrines of development: Part II
Doctrines of development are understood through a distinction between intentional development and the immanent process of capitalist development. Agrarian doctrine consists of proposals, usually associated with official policy, to undertake agrarian schemes of development based on small-farm, household production. The intention is to compensate for mass unemployment, urban poverty and the threat of rural emigration. This article gives a historica…
Bankers, peasants, and land in British West Africa 1905-37
It has been consistently argued by development practitioners that the absence of rural credit from banks is one of the most debilitating aspects of African rural life. It has also been argued by historians that European bankers in Africa deliberately discriminated against rural African credit seekers. In this article we argue that, over a period of three decades, British bankers attempted to create lending facilities which were to be directly aim…
The agrarian problem: Notes on the Nairobi discussion
The following points are intended as a contribution to the debate on the subordination of the peasantry to capital. First Njonjo's (1977) conjunctural study of the development of agrarian capitalism in Kenya does not provide any substantial distinction between property ownership and capital. Hence, his basis for supposing an alliance between the indigenous class of capital and peasant proprietors is very tenuous and limited. This is because of th…
The Great Arch: English State Formation as Cultural Revolution
Before and after Mau Mau in Kenya
Paul Collier and Deepak Lal, Labour and Poverty in Kenya, 1900-1980, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986. Pp.296. £27.50. Tabitha Kanogo, Squatters and the Roots of Mau Mau, London: James Currey, 1987. Pp.206. £25 and £8.95. David Throup, Economic and Social Origins of Mau Mau, 1945-1953, London: James Currey, 1987. Pp.304. £25 and £8.95. The author discusses three books on Kenya. Tabitha Kanogo's Squatters and the Roots of Mau Mau and Economic and Soc…
An Overview of Election Studies in Africa
Since 1990, more than 30 sub-Saharan states have introduced multi-party electoral systems to choose their national governments. This development, normally understood as part of the post-cold war 'wave of democratisation', has led many to think that there is something intrinsically new about such a competitive process in Africa, which is not the case. This article looks at some elections that have been held in various states and studied, both befo…
British Neo‐Hegelian Idealism and official colonial practice in Africa: The Oluwa Land case of 1921
Some recent East African peasant studies
Torben Bager, Marketing Cooperatives and Peasants in Kenya Scandinavian Institute of African Studies, Uppsala, 1980, pp. 116. Ño price. John Carlsen, Economic and Social transformation in Rural Kenya Scandinavian Institute of African Studies, Uppsala, 1980, pp. 230. No price. Frederick Cooper, From Slaves to Squatters: Plantation Labour and Agriculture in Zanzibar and Coastal Kenya, 1890-1925, Yale University Press, New Haven, 1980, pp. 328, £15.…
Quakes of Development
Books/Livres
The Organisation of Production as a Space-Modelling Mechanism in Underdeveloped Countries: The Case of Tea Production in Kenya
The agrarian problem: Notes on the Nairobi discussion
The following points are intended as a contribution to the debate on the subordination of the peasantry to capital. First Njonjo's (1977) conjunctural study of the development of agrarian capitalism in Kenya does not provide any substantial distinction between property ownership and capital. Hence, his basis for supposing an alliance between the indigenous class of capital and peasant proprietors is very tenuous and limited. This is because of th…
Some recent East African peasant studies
Torben Bager, Marketing Cooperatives and Peasants in Kenya Scandinavian Institute of African Studies, Uppsala, 1980, pp. 116. Ño price. John Carlsen, Economic and Social transformation in Rural Kenya Scandinavian Institute of African Studies, Uppsala, 1980, pp. 230. No price. Frederick Cooper, From Slaves to Squatters: Plantation Labour and Agriculture in Zanzibar and Coastal Kenya, 1890-1925, Yale University Press, New Haven, 1980, pp. 328, £15.…
Shorter Notices
British Imperial Economic Policy During the War
This chapter examines the extent to which both the principle of total war and the experience of the Second World War reduced colonial autonomy and centralised imperial economic policy around the entity of a British national economy. The argument here is that British centralisation was accentuated during the war as the British government deliberately tried to regulate the use of sterling for international payments. If the use of international mone…
Change in state power, international conditions and peasant producers: The case of Kenya
Arguments for food self‐sufficiency at the level of small‐scale farms invariably refer to the need for national self‐sufficiency. This article shows that state‐inspired attempts to impose self‐sufficiency upon specialised middle peasant producers in Kenya have had the effect of reducing the supply of marketed food and increasing food imports. A change in the character of presidential power has also inhibited food production by large‐scale farms a…
Black Africa 1945–80: Economic Decolonisation and Arrested Development
Journal Article Black Africa 1945–80: economic decolonisation and arrested development Get access Black Africa 1945–80: economic decolonisation and arrested development, by D. K. Fieldhouse. Allen and Unwin, London, 1986. xiv + 260 pp. £22.50 hardback, £9.95 paperback. ISBN 0 04 325017 3. M. P. COWEN M. P. COWEN City of London Polytechnic Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 86, Issue 34…
Before and after Mau Mau in Kenya
Paul Collier and Deepak Lal, Labour and Poverty in Kenya, 1900-1980, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986. Pp.296. £27.50. Tabitha Kanogo, Squatters and the Roots of Mau Mau, London: James Currey, 1987. Pp.206. £25 and £8.95. David Throup, Economic and Social Origins of Mau Mau, 1945-1953, London: James Currey, 1987. Pp.304. £25 and £8.95. The author discusses three books on Kenya. Tabitha Kanogo's Squatters and the Roots of Mau Mau and Economic and Soc…
The Origin and Course of Fabian Colonialism in Africa
This article shows why and how the practices of Fabians in colonial Africa rested upon a socialist version of the doctrine of trusteeship. With its roots in nineteenth-century Comtean positivism, Fabian colonialism originated in an attempt to transcend the limits of Chamberlainite development as part of the radical-liberal reaction against the doctrine of development. The Labour Government's abortive colonial offensive of 1947 was unwittingly dra…
Bankers, peasants, and land in British West Africa 1905-37
It has been consistently argued by development practitioners that the absence of rural credit from banks is one of the most debilitating aspects of African rural life. It has also been argued by historians that European bankers in Africa deliberately discriminated against rural African credit seekers. In this article we argue that, over a period of three decades, British bankers attempted to create lending facilities which were to be directly aim…
Finance capital and peasants in Colonial West Africa: A reply to August Gächter
British Neo‐Hegelian Idealism and official colonial practice in Africa: The Oluwa Land case of 1921
Indigenous capital in Kenya: The 'Indian' dimension of debate
An Overview of Election Studies in Africa
Since 1990, more than 30 sub-Saharan states have introduced multi-party electoral systems to choose their national governments. This development, normally understood as part of the post-cold war 'wave of democratisation', has led many to think that there is something intrinsically new about such a competitive process in Africa, which is not the case. This article looks at some elections that have been held in various states and studied, both befo…
The Great Arch: English State Formation as Cultural Revolution
The Renewed Search for Social Trusteeship: Cohen and Fitch on Social Justice and the City
It has become a commonplace to argue that in the face of a discredited Marxism, socialism must find an alternative basis for a renewed project. This article investigates two of these claims by Gerald Cohen and Bob Fitch. It does so with particular reference to the attempt by these authors to re-invoke, both wittingly and unwittingly, David Ricardo, John Stuart Mill, Henry George, and Auguste Comte among others as the source of a renewed left proj…
The History of Development: From Western Origins to Global Faith
Agrarian doctrines of development: Part II
Doctrines of development are understood through a distinction between intentional development and the immanent process of capitalist development. Agrarian doctrine consists of proposals, usually associated with official policy, to undertake agrarian schemes of development based on small-farm, household production. The intention is to compensate for mass unemployment, urban poverty and the threat of rural emigration. This article gives a historica…
Agrarian doctrines of development: Part I
Doctrines of development are understood through a distinction between intentional development and the immanent process of capitalist development. Agrarian doctrine consists of proposals, usually associated with official policy, to undertake agrarian schemes of development based on small-farm, household production. The intention is to compensate for mass unemployment, urban poverty and the threat of rural emigration. This article gives a historica…
Quakes of Development
Doctrines Of Development
Doctrines of Development sets out a critique of the idea of practice of development by exploring the history of development theory and action from the early nineteenth century to the late twentieth century, from Britain to Quebec and Kenya.
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