Politics, Participation, And Poverty: Development Through Selfhelp In Kenya

by Barbara P. Thomas, Barbara Thomas-Slayter

Overview

Focusing on the distribution of benefits in relation to class, ethnicity, and gender, this book explores the methods to which the rural poor can organize themselves to participate in economic and social development and examines the roles that self-help organizations play in the political economy of Kenya. Dr. Thomas looks at the competition for pow

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780367299200
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	12/04/2020
Pages:	228
Product dimensions:	5.69(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Barbara P. Thomas is assistant professor and director of the Teaching Program in International Development and Social Change at Clark University. She spent ten years living in various countries in Africa and Asia, including three years in Kenya.

Table of Contents

Preface — Organizing the Rural Disadvantaged — A Framework for Examining Self-Help: National, Historical, and Community Perspectives — The Role of Self-Help in the Political Process — Patterns of Access and Advantage in Self-Help: The Province, the District, and the Local Community — Self-Help Community Projects: From Rhetoric to Reality — Self-Help and Rural Stratification: Who Wins and Who Loses? — Women's Self-Help Associations: Agents for Change or Techniques for Survival? — Development Dilemmas: The Politics of Participation in Self-Help — Epilogue Harambee Revisited, 1985