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Decentralisation and civil society: negotiating local development in West Africa
Dezentralisierung und Zivilgesellschaft: die Aushandlung lokaler Entwicklung in Westafrika
[working paper]
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Universität Bielefeld, Fak. für Soziologie, Forschungsschwerpunkt Entwicklungssoziologie
Abstract "The paper, referring to fieldwork i.a. in Senegal, challenges the concept of decentralisation by regarding the interface of knowledge systems at the local rural arena. It is asked whether there is a process of marginalisation of knowledge which had been acquired and generated these last years by pe... view more
"The paper, referring to fieldwork i.a. in Senegal, challenges the concept of decentralisation by regarding the interface of knowledge systems at the local rural arena. It is asked whether there is a process of marginalisation of knowledge which had been acquired and generated these last years by peasant organisations and women's movements after the breakdown of the authoritarian development State. Applying an agency and gender perspective, it is asked how decentralisation is conceived of by various types of local and especially female actors - including the elected rural councillors - as access to development information from which they are again excluded and therefore obliged to renegotiate. On the other side, their conceptions and experiences of sustainable development including social and food security are devaluated and not made use of in newly designed blueprints of local development plans which are said to be elaborated by participatory procedures, thereby challenging good governance through interaction with other levels." (author's abstract)... view less
Keywords
West Africa; Senegal; rural development; rural area; knowledge; peasant; woman; women's movement; women's organization; decentralization; sustainable development; participation; Africa South of the Sahara; developing country; Africa; French-speaking Africa
Classification
Macrosociology, Analysis of Whole Societies
Document language
English
Publication Year
2006
City
Bielefeld
Page/Pages
28 p.
Series
Working Paper / Universität Bielefeld, Fakultät für Soziologie, Forschungsschwerpunkt Entwicklungssoziologie, No. 358
ISSN
0936-3408
Status
Published Version; reviewed
Licence
Deposit Licence - No Redistribution, No Modifications