Civil Society, Locality and Globalization in Rural Tanzania

A Forty-Year Perspective

Bibliographic Data

ID3884640
AuthorsPeter Gibbons, Peter Gibbon (corresponding author)
Year2001
Volume32
Issue5
Pages819-844
Publication date2001-11-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueDevelopment and Change (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0012-155X • E-ISSN: 1467-7660
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/1467-7660.00228
OpenAlexW1977659672
LanguageEN
Citations received17

In the last decade, much discussion of civil society in LDCs, especially those in Africa, has been based on two sets of normative assumptions, one deriving from the Tocquevillian tradition, the other concerning the nature and implications of globalization. This article criticizes both these approaches, on the basis of a restatement of the Hegel-Young Marx position on civil society. This is then used to compare and contrast the character of rural civil society in northern Tanzania in the 1950s and 1990s, allowing a critical consideration of the emergent properties of LDC civil societies, of the changing significance of the 'local' and the 'global' within them, and of the underlying sources of their transformation

Character (mathematics) · Civil society · Development economics · Economics · Globalization · Hegelianism · Locality · Normative · Perspective (graphical) · Political economy · Political science · Position (finance) · Socioeconomics · Sociology · Tanzania · Law · Tourism, Volunteerism, and Development