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Entrepreneurs, investors and the state: the public and the private in sub-Saharan African irrigation development
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posted on 2023-06-09, 13:25 authored by Elizabeth HarrisonElizabeth Harrison, Anna MdeeThis article draws on ethnographic research in Tanzania to interrogate the discourse of ‘public’ and ‘private’ in sub-Saharan irrigation development. It contrasts the complexity of social and political relations with narratives suggesting that ‘private’ is necessarily opposed and superior to ‘public’. We argue that support for models of private-sector development obscures access to and control over resources and can result in the dispossession of those least able to resist this. Different interests of ‘entrepreneurial’ individuals and corporate investors and the ways in which these relate to the state are also glossed over. Conversely, the failure of the ‘public’ cannot simply be read from the chequered histories of irrigation schemes within which public and private interests intersect in complex ways.
Funding
Innovations to Promote Growth among Small-scale Irrigators in Africa: An Ethnographic and Knowledge-Exchange Approach; G0983; ESRC-ECONOMIC & SOCIAL RESEARCH COUNCIL; ES/J009415/1
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- Published
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Third World QuarterlyISSN
0143-6597Publisher
Taylor & FrancisExternal DOI
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11Volume
39Page range
2126-2141Department affiliated with
- International Development Publications
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- Sussex Centre for Migration Research Publications
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- Yes
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2018-05-22First Open Access (FOA) Date
2018-05-22First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date
2018-05-21Usage metrics
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