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Operation Vijiji and Local Ecological Consciousness: The case of Eastern Iraqw land, (1974-1976)

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dc.creator Lawi, Yusufu Q.
dc.date 2016-03-17T11:26:51Z
dc.date 2016-03-17T11:26:51Z
dc.date 2007
dc.date.accessioned 2018-04-18T11:50:18Z
dc.date.available 2018-04-18T11:50:18Z
dc.identifier Lawi, Y.Q., 2007. Tanzania's Operation Vijiji and Local Ecological Consciousness: The Case of Eastern Iraqwland, 1974–1976. The Journal of African History, 48(01), pp.69-93.
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/1094
dc.identifier http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0021853707002526
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/10790
dc.description Full text available at http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=988940&fileId=S0021853707002526
dc.description Tanzania's Ujamaa villagization campaign of 1973–6 was one of the greatest social experiments in postcolonial Africa. Occurring during a time of continuing hope for a better future for the nation, the experiment aimed to improve the lives of the majority of rural Tanzanians. Despite this noble intention, the attempt at rural modernization failed miserably in many respects. Discussions of these failures have tended to give prominence to tangible explanations, ignoring more nuanced and qualitative issues, including environmental concerns based on local cosmologies. In an attempt to fill this gap, the present article uses a case study of eastern Iraqwland in northern Tanzania to explore local articulations of the compulsory villagization campaign and to interpret them in light of ecological perspectives that were prevalent at the time in Iraqw village communities.
dc.language en
dc.publisher Journal of African History
dc.subject Tanzania
dc.subject Development
dc.subject Environment
dc.subject Land tenure
dc.subject Political ecology
dc.subject Socialism.
dc.title Operation Vijiji and Local Ecological Consciousness: The case of Eastern Iraqw land, (1974-1976)
dc.type Journal Article


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