Harrison, E and Mdee, A orcid.org/0000-0002-8260-1840 (2018) Entrepreneurs, investors and the state: the public and the private in Sub-Saharan African irrigation development. Third World Quarterly, 39 (11). pp. 2126-2141. ISSN 0143-6597
Abstract
This 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.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | (c) 2018 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/ licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
Keywords: | Irrigation; Tanzania; Public-Private; Entrepreneurs |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Education, Social Sciences and Law (Leeds) > School of Politics & International Studies (POLIS) (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 19 Apr 2018 13:26 |
Last Modified: | 15 May 2020 18:38 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/01436597.2018.1458299 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:129700 |