Engström, Linda
- Department of Urban and Rural Development, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Research article2019Peer reviewedOpen access
Conjuring 'Win-World' - Resilient Development Narratives in a Large-Scale Agro-Investment in Tanzania
Engstrom, Linda; Hajdu, Flora
Abstract
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.
Published in
Journal of Development Studies
2019, volume: 55, number: 6, pages: 1201-1220
SLU Authors
Hajdu, Flora
- Department of Urban and Rural Development, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
- Department of Urban and Rural Development, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
UKÄ Subject classification
Human Geography
Publication identifier
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00220388.2018.1438599
Permanent link to this page (URI)
https://res.slu.se/id/publ/94810