TY - BOOK ID - 9960103 TI - The state must be our master of fire : how peasants craft sustainable development in Senegal PY - 2004 SN - 0520227786 0520235916 1597349194 052092942X 9786612356971 1282356976 9780520929425 1417520124 9781417520121 9780520227781 9780520235915 9781282356979 6612356979 9781597349192 PB - Berkeley : University of California Press, DB - UniCat KW - Land tenure - Senegal - Sine-Saloum - History. KW - Land tenure-- Senegal-- Sine-Saloum-- History. KW - Real Estate, Housing & Land Use KW - Business & Economics KW - Land tenure KW - Serer (African people) KW - Acculturation KW - #SBIB:39A73 KW - #SBIB:39A11 KW - Culture contact KW - Development education KW - Civilization KW - Culture KW - Ethnology KW - Assimilation (Sociology) KW - Cultural fusion KW - Serers KW - Agrarian tenure KW - Feudal tenure KW - Freehold KW - Land ownership KW - Land question KW - Landownership KW - Tenure of land KW - Land use, Rural KW - Real property KW - Land, Nationalization of KW - Landowners KW - Serfdom KW - History. KW - Government relations. KW - Etnografie: Afrika KW - Antropologie : socio-politieke structuren en relaties KW - Sine-Saloum (Senegal) KW - Social conditions. KW - Economic conditions. KW - Siin (Senegal) KW - Siin und Saalum (Senegal) KW - Kaolack (Senegal : Region) KW - Fatick (Senegal : Region) KW - History KW - Government relations KW - Culture contact (Acculturation) KW - academic. KW - agriculture. KW - change. KW - colonial rulers. KW - colonial. KW - colonialism. KW - ecology. KW - economics. KW - ecosystem. KW - ecosystems. KW - environmentalism. KW - environmentalist. KW - land cultivation. KW - land tenure. KW - land use. KW - productive agriculture. KW - regional. KW - rural community. KW - rural land. KW - rural society. KW - scholarly. KW - senegal. KW - social change. KW - social justice. KW - social studies. KW - society. KW - sustainability. KW - transformation. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:9960103 AB - Over several centuries, the Serer of the Siin region of Senegal developed a complex system of land tenure that resulted in a stable rural society, productive agriculture, and a well-managed ecosystem. Dennis Galvan tells the story of what happened when French colonial rulers, and later the government of the newly independent Senegal, imposed new systems of land tenure and cultivation on the Serer of Siin. Galvan's book is a painstaking and skillful autopsy of ruinous Western-style "rational" economic development policy forced upon a fragile, yet self-sustaining, society. It is also a disquieting demonstration of the general folly of such an approach and an attempt to articulate a better, more sensitive, and ultimately more productive model for change-a model Galvan calls "institutional syncretism." ER -