Peer-Reviewed Article March 31, 2007
High on Modernity? Explaining the Failings of Tanzanian Villagisation
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Published in: African Studies
Publisher: Taylor & Francis • South Africa • 0002-0184 • 0256-1751
Abstract
This article presents a critical assessment of James Scott's portrayal, in Seeing Like a State (1998), of Tanzanian villagisation as a ‘high modernist scheme’. In particular, the article seeks to t...