Emery Roe - Except-Africa: Remaking Development, Rethinking Power
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Copyright 1999 by Transaction Publishers, New Brunswick, New Jersey.
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Library of Congress Catalog Number: 98-40494 ISBN: 1-56000-399-5 Printed in the United States of America
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Roe, Emery. Except-Africa : remaking development, rethinking power / Emery Roe. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index. ISBN 1-56000-399-5 (alk. paper) 1. Rural developmentAfrica, Sub-Saharan. 2. Rural deveopment Political aspectsAfrica, Sub-Saharan. I. Title. HN780.Z9C6718 1998 307.1'412'0967dc21 98-40494 CIP
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Contents
Preface and Acknowledgments
ix
Introduction: Except-Africa and Its Counternarratives
1
1. Development Narratives and Six Ways to Change Them
13
2. The Tragedy of the Commons
43
3. Old (Risk-Averse) Pastoralism versus New (High Reliability) Pastoralism
with Lynn Huntsinger and Keith Labnow
57
4. Expatriate Advising
93
5. Boom-and-Bust Budgeting
with Eddy Omolehinwa
123
6. Decentralization, Rural Development, and Politics
153
Conclusion: The Power Narrative and Its Counternarrative, the Politics of Complexity
173
Selected Bibliography
191
Index
203
Page vii
Dedicated to Brian Egner, Tom and Roberta Worrick, and Gary Childers
Page ix
Preface and Acknowledgments
This is my first real book on Africa; it is also my last. I've wanted to write this one for some time, as each chapter has a special claim on my attention. The introduction and chapter 1, which deal with development narratives, reflect my most cited work.1 Chapter 2 developed a model of triangulation that I extended into a book on sustainable development.2 Chapter 3 sums up twenty-five years of my thinking about sub-Saharan livestock development while making what I feel to be a major contribution to the study of pastoralism. Chapter 4 on expatriate advisors and land reform is the finest piece I have written and personally the most satisfying. I've been told that the article on which chapter 5 is based helped inaugurate a "boom and bust budgeting" literature, while chapter 6 on decentralization in Zimbabwe presents the results of my last fieldwork. Finally, the conclusion is based on an interchange between my critics and myself over what I consider to be the hollow center of African studiesits obsession with power and power politics. While the interchange has had no impact on the field, the topic remains central to my work on highly complex policy issues. Briefly put, the principal consequence of complexity is surprise, not power. I hope the reader will share the excitement that originally propelled the writing of these chapters and the satisfaction that comes with seeing old issues in a new and, I believe, more tractable light.
Beyond this book, I have little more to say. Except-Africa develops the widest array of counternarratives yet assembled to the pernicious development narratives that drive so much of contemporary understanding of African rural development and politics. This book is the first concerted effort of its kind, and these counternarratives provide a basis for reconstituting contemporary understandings of rural sub-Saharan Africa, particularly those in the media and Western popular opinion. This reconstitution is, however, an exercise I shall not be undertaking. A major argument of Except-Africa is that technical experts, such as myself, have used our expertise to assert rights as "stakeholders" in the land and resources of an Africa we do not live in and in which we really do not have a personal daily stake. I no longer am comfortable with being that "stakeholder." Except-Africa should be read less as the
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