Issue

Vol. 3 No. 1 & 2 (2014): Volume 3, Nos. 1 & 2, 2014

Sam Maghimbi, Rural Society and the Economy of Affection

https://doi.org/10.56279/jhss.v3i1%20&%202.158
Goran Hyden

Corresponding Author(s) : Goran Hyden

goran.hyden@udsm.ac.tz

Journal of Humanities & Social Science (JHSS), Vol. 3 No. 1 & 2 (2014): Volume 3, Nos. 1 & 2, 2014

Abstract

Professor Sam Maghimbi devoted much of his immense intellectual energy to issues of
rural Tanzania. He was not convinced that the neo-Marxist or neo-liberal explanations
really gave justice to what he – like me – saw as the empirical realities of rural Tanzania.
Drawing on my own previous work on the ‘uncaptured peasantry’ and the ‘economy of
affection’ I wish to analyze what has happened in rural Tanzania since the early 1980s
when these concepts first became part of the intellectual discourse about Tanzania. The
paper reintroduces the concepts and why they were adopted before looking at trends in
rural Tanzania which show that agricultural development has stalled and migration to
urban centres has accelerated. It will look more specifically at what happens to rural
households and how their condition is, both a cause and consequences of the difficulties
of developing the rural areas of the countr

Sam Maghimbi, Rural Society and the Economy of Affection. (2022). Journal of Humanities & Social Science (JHSS), 3(1 & 2). https://doi.org/10.56279/jhss.v3i1 & 2.158
Download Citation
Endnote/Zotero/Mendeley (RIS)
BibTeX
References
  1. Andersson, A. 2011. Maize Remittances, Market Participation and Consumption among
  2. Smallholders in Africa. In G. Djurfeldt, E. Aryeetey and A. Isinika (eds.). African Smallholders: Food
  3. Crops, Market and Policy. Wallingford UK: CABI Press. pp 138–55.
  4. Bersselaar, D. van der & S. Decker, 2011. No Longer at Ease: Corruption as an Institution in West
  5. Africa. International Journal of Public Administration, 34: 741–52.
  6. Braudel, F. 1977. Afterthoughts on Material Civilization and Capitalism. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins
  7. University Press.
  8. Ekeh, P. 1975. Colonialism and the Two Publics: A Theoretical Statement. Comparative Studies in
  9. Society and History, 17(1): 91–112.
  10. Geary, K. 2012. Our Land, Our Lives: Time Out on Global Land Rush. London: Oxfam International
  11. Helmke, G. & S. Levitsky. 2006. Informal Institutions and Democracy: Lessons from Latin America.
  12. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.
  13. Hyden, G. 1980. Beyond Ujamaa in Tanzania: Underdevelopment and an Uncaptured Peasantry. Berkeley
  14. CA: University of California Press.
  15. Hyden, G. 1973. Efficiency versus Distribution in East African Cooperatives. Nairobi: East African
  16. Literature Bureau.
  17. Independent Evaluation Group. 2008. Public Sector Reform: What Works and Why? Washington DC:
  18. World Bank.
  19. Justesen, M. K. & C. Bjornskov. 2013. Exploiting the Poor: Corruption and Poverty in Africa.
  20. Afrobarometer Working Paper No 139. Johannesburg: Afrobarometer.
  21. Kashaga F. M. 2013. Back to the Roots: A New Social Policy Agenda for the Welfare of the Elderly in Rural
  22. Tanzania: The Case of Bukoba District. PhD dissertation, Faculty of Social Science, University of
  23. Helsinki.
  24. Lindberg, S. I. 2003. It’s Our Time to ‘Chop’: Do Elections in Africa Feed Neo-Patrimonialism
  25. Rather Than Counteract It? Democratization, 10(2): 121–40.
  26. Lindberg-Pankani, W. 2013. The Reversed Collective Action Dilemma: Cases from Botswana and
  27. Ghana. PhD dissertation, Department of Political Science, University of Florida.
  28. Maghimbi, S. 2012. Populist Theory in Russia and Tanzania: A Collage of Ideas. Professorial Inaugural
  29. Lecture Series 51, University of Dar es Salaam.
  30. Maghimbi, S., I. Kimambo & K. Sugimura (eds.). 2011. Contemporary Perspectives on Moral Economy:
  31. Africa and Southeast. Dar es Salaam: Dar es Salaam University Press.
  32. MacLean, L. M. 2010. Informal Institutions and Citizenship in Rural Africa: Risk and Reciprocity in Ghana and
  33. Cote d’Ivoire. New York: Cambridge University Press.
  34. Olson, M. 1965. The Logic of Collective Action: Public Goods and the Theory of Groups. Cambridge MA:
  35. Harvard University Press.
  36. Scott, J. C. 1985. Weapons of the Weak: Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance. New Haven CT: Yale
  37. University Press.
  38. Scott, J.C. 1976. The Moral Economy of the Peasant: Rebellion and Subsistence in Southeast Asia. New
  39. Haven CT: Yale University Press.
  40. Sugimura, K. (ed.). 2013. Endogenous Development and Moral Economy in Agro-Pastoral Communities in
  41. Central Tanzania. Fukui: Fukui Prefectoral University.
  42. Sugimura, K., D. Mwamfupe & T. Tsurut (eds.). 2012. Rural Development Policy and Agro-Pastoralism
  43. in East Africa. Fukui: Fukui Prefectoral University (Japan).
  44. Transparency International. 2011. Corruption Perception Index 2011. Berlin: Transparency International.
  45. Tsuruta, T. 2013. African Peasantry from the Moral Economy Perspective. In Sugimura, K. (ed.).
  46. Endogenous Development and Moral Economy in Agro-Pastoral Communities in Central Tanzania.
  47. Fukui Prefectoral University. pp 9–19.
  48. http://allafrica.com/stories/201304220687.htm
Read More
Author biographies is not available.

How to Cite

Sam Maghimbi, Rural Society and the Economy of Affection. (2022). Journal of Humanities & Social Science (JHSS), 3(1 & 2). https://doi.org/10.56279/jhss.v3i1 & 2.158
Download