Conjuring 'Win-World' - Resilient Development Narratives in a Large-Scale Agro-Investment in Tanzania

Sammanfattning

Through a case study of a public-private partnership (PPP) for development in which the Swedish development agency Sida supported a Swedish company trying to implement a large-scale agro-investment in sugarcane in Tanzania, we unpack the underpinnings of what we call 'win-world', a resilient development narrative maintained by actors promoting the investment. Rich empirical descriptions show that this narrative was highly resilient to accumulated academic knowledge and current real-world problems. We found that the privatisation of development increased the resilience of the narrative to evidence of its own shortcomings.

Publicerad i

Journal of Development Studies
2019, volym: 55, nummer: 6, sidor: 1201-1220

SLU författare

• Engström, Linda

  • Institutionen för stad och land, Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet
    

• Hajdu, Flora

  • Institutionen för stad och land, Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet
    

UKÄ forskningsämne

Kulturgeografi

Publikationens identifierare

• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00220388.2018.1438599

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