Participation as tyranny! : struggle for social control in rural Uganda

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dc.contributor.advisor Dansereau, Suzanne
dc.coverage.spatial Uganda
dc.creator Reniers, Graeme
dc.date.accessioned 2012-01-26T20:30:16Z
dc.date.available 2012-01-26T20:30:16Z
dc.date.issued 2011
dc.identifier.other DT433.285 R472 2011
dc.identifier.uri http://library2.smu.ca/xmlui/handle/01/23773
dc.description v, 140 leaves ; 29 cm. en_CA
dc.description Includes abstract and appendix.
dc.description Includes bibliographical references (leaves 129-140).
dc.description.abstract This thesis critically examines the role of peasant participation in development processes in Uganda, as embodied by the 'good' governance agenda. The historical nature of the struggle for social control and peasant resistance to control in Sub-Saharan Africa was explored along with literature concerning contemporary manifestations of this struggle as found in the participatory processes of the 'good' governance agenda. A qualitative case study using Marxist dialectical materialist methods was performed to determine the nature of the relationship between 'good' governance defined participatory processes and the struggle for social control in Uganda. The study found Ugandan peasants to have historically resisted elite control, and that elites have responded with limited democratic and economic concessions while struggling to expand social control. An analysis of Uganda's version of the Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers, and the role of local government units and civil society organizations, as part of the framework for participation provided by the 'good' governance agenda, found the trend of granting limited democratic concessions while obscuring the struggle to expand elite social control continues. The thesis concludes that participatory 'good' governance models are best understood as a sophisticated tool of class struggle, wherein bourgeois classes (domestic and international) struggle to socially control and subvert popular classes, and is therefore a system of tyranny. en_CA
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dc.language.iso en en_CA
dc.publisher Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University en_CA
dc.subject.lcc DT433.285
dc.subject.lcsh Participatory rural appraisal -- Uganda
dc.subject.lcsh Community development -- Uganda -- Management
dc.subject.lcsh Uganda -- Social conditions
dc.title Participation as tyranny! : struggle for social control in rural Uganda en_CA
dc.type Text en_CA
thesis.degree.name Master of Arts in International Development Studies
thesis.degree.level Masters
thesis.degree.discipline International Development Studies Program
thesis.degree.grantor Saint Mary's University (Halifax, N.S.)
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