Shaping Tradition
Civil Society, Community and Development in Colonial Northern Ghana, 1899-1957
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9370414 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jeff Grischow (0000-0001-8868-8142, corresponding author), Jeff D Grischow |
| Year | 2006 |
| Pages | 268 |
| Publication date | 2006-10-17 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Shaping Tradition (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Brill (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1163/9789047410232 |
| OpenAlex | W614342921 |
| ISBN | 9789047410232 |
| Open Library | OL52586410M |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 14 |
Using Northern Ghana as a case study, this book challenges the invocation of civil society as a tool for building community in the name of development. Far from equating civil society with community, colonial officials used the doctrine of community against African civil society. For colonial officers, civil society represented the corruption of authentic development, which could be avoided only by protecting traditional peasant communities in the face of economic transformation. The book charts this colonial program, from the creation of “native states” in the early twentieth century to an ambitious agricultural mechanisation scheme in the late 1940s. In its challenge to current writing on civil society, the study offers an important contribution to African history and development studies
Art · Civil society · Colonialism · Doctrine · Face (sociological concept · Language change · Peasant · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · State (computer science · African history and culture studies · Law · Public Administration · Burgermaatschappij · Community development · Economic conditions · Ghana · History · Politieke ontwikkeling
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“Here There Is No Gold Standard. Cows Are the Standard”. Multiple Currencies, Colonial Taxation and Monetary Transition in Upper Ghana (1896–1936)
Small Change
It is All He Can Do to Cope with the Roads in His Own District”
Food Comes First”
I nearly lost my work’
South–South Cooperation, Agribusiness, and African Agricultural Development
Forced Labour, Roads, and Chiefs
The Rise of the ‘Impenetrable Hedge’
When the Chief Takes an Interest’
State-Building, Collective Efficacy, and the Co-Production of Public Goods in Rural Africa
Old tractors, new policies and induced technological transformation
Internal transmigrants
Unsettling Power
| Citations per year | 0.82 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2009 - 2026 (18) |
| Highly cited | No |