Negotiating Development
African Farmers and Colonial Experts at the Office du Niger, 1920-1960
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3910950 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ghislaine Lydon, Monica M Van Beusekom |
| Year | 2002 |
| Volume | 35 |
| Issue | 2/3 |
| Pages | 494 |
| Publication date | 2002-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The International Journal of African Historical Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0361-7882 • E-ISSN: 2326-3016 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/3097639 |
| OpenAlex | W650823675 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 47 |
Introduction - Rice & cotton: neomercantilism, social welfare & the shaping of the Office du Niger - Colonisation Indigene: French rural development ideology at the Office du Niger, 1920-1940 - The recruitment of settlers for the Office du Niger - Coercion & poverty at the Office du Niger - Negotiating farming & marketing practices at the Office du Niger - Participation contested & redefined: farmer resistance & ideas about development at the Office du Niger - Conclusion - Appendix: A Note on Sources
Colonialism · Ethnology · Geography · Negotiation · Niger delta · Political science · Socioeconomics · Sociology · African history and culture studies · Agriculture and Rural Development Research · Engineering · Law
The Afterlife of Empire
Education Through Labor
Nkrumah’s Baby”
From dry hell to blossoming garden
Controlling the farmer
Much better than earlier
Thrift Shop Philanthropy
Managing the world
Agriculture, American expertise, and the quest for global data
International development in Africa
Settler farming, agricultural colonisation and development in Katanga (Belgian Congo), 1910-1920
A New Pastoral Frontier
Suitable lodgings for students’
Lessons from the 2008 global food crisis
Property Relations by other Means
Writing Back to Empire
Science in the Hands of Love’
One of the Most Urgent Problems to Solve’
Histories of Empire and Environmental Legacies in Africa
What "Development" Does to Work
It is All He Can Do to Cope with the Roads in His Own District”
Developing Workers
From Unfree Work to Working for Free
Colonial subjects
Turning Water into Power
The Failure of Cotton Imperialism in Africa
Encountering development in East African fiction
When the Chief Takes an Interest’
The Growth Concept, Decolonization, and the Global Cold War
Ripple effects
How to Feed an Empire
Traveling Companions
The Informal Sector in Jinja, Uganda
Individualism, Community, and Cooperatives in the Development Thinking of the Union Soudanaise-RDA, 1946-1960
A Wider Loom? French Colonial Preoccupations with West African Weaving
Africa Since 1940
Training Girls for Colonial Development
Colonialism and the African Environment
The British End of the British Empire
Introduction
Conclusion
Controlling Development
Imagining an Imperial Modernity
The Contribution of African Women to Economic Growth and Development in the Pre-Colonial and Colonial Periods
The Mise en Valeur of the Gold Mines in the Haut-Niger, 1918–1939
Anticolonial Nationalism in French West Africa
Development, Modernization, and the Social Sciences in the Era of Decolonization
| Unique citing works | 47 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,35 |
| Citation span | 2006 - 2025 (20) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 12 |