Book chapter
Setting a Moral Economy in Motion: Youth in Tanzania’s “Age of Improvement”
Generations Past, p.68
Ohio University Press, 1
09/15/2010
Abstract
THE CONCEPT OF moral economy has never been far from the view of historians of Tanzania.¹ Yet, the most prominent approach to moral economy in Tanzanian studies has been neglected over the past two decades. After generating intense debate in the first half of the 1980s, Goren Hyden’s concept of the “economy of affection” gradually faded from view.² It disappeared as the object of Hyden’s critique, Tanzania socialism, gave way to economic liberalization and capitalism. Recently, however, debate over the “economy of affection” has revived through the collaboration of Tanzanian and Japanese scholars.³ In a contribution to the renewed debate,
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Setting a Moral Economy in Motion: Youth in Tanzania’s “Age of Improvement”
- Creators
- JAMES L. Giblin
- Contributors
- Andrew Burton (Editor)Hélène Charton-Bigot (Editor)
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Publication Details
- Generations Past, p.68
- Edition
- 1
- Publisher
- Ohio University Press
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 09/15/2010
- Academic Unit
- History; Interdisciplinary Programs
- Record Identifier
- 9984278117902771
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