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Improvising Planned Development on the Gezira Plain, Sudan, 1900-1980
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The typical image of the Gezira Scheme, the large-scale irrigation scheme started under British colonial rule in Sudan, is of a centrally planned effort by a central colonial power controlling tenants and cotton production. However, any idea(l)s of planned irrigation and profit in Gezira had to be realized by African farmers and European officials, who both had their own agendas. Projects like Gezira are best understood in terms of continuous negotiations. This book rewrites Gezira's history in terms of colonial control, farmers' actions and resistance, and the broader development debate.
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- Cover
- Series
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction Settling Certain Details Coming to a Deal
- Chapter 1 Cotton from a Wilderness: The Early Negotiations
- Chapter 2 A Task of Some Magnitude: Gezira Management Logic
- Chapter 3 No Man Can Serve Two Masters: Designing Gezira Irrigation
- Chapter 4 Making the Best of a Rotten Deal: Tenant Realities and Resistance
- Chapter 5 Anotherâs Weekâs Toil: British SPS Inspectors and Their Idea(l)s
- Chapter 6 Move from the Old Grooves: Gezira Continuity and Change after World War II
- Chapter 7 The Everlasting Rectangles: Gezira and International Development
- Epilogue A Typical Battlefield: Understanding Negotiated Development
- Archival Sources
- Notes
- References
- Index