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| Title: | “Culture Stops Development!”: Bijagó Youth and the Appropriation of
Developmentalist Discourse in Guinea-B |
| Authors: | Bordonaro, Lorenzo |
| Keywords: | Guiné Bissau
Juventude Bijagó |
| Issue Date: | 1-Jan-2009 |
| Abstract: | Since the 1960s scholars have criticized the notion of development, arguing that
the rhetoric and practice of international development serve imperialistic
interests, destroying local orders and colonizing consciousnesses. Through the
analysis of the “will to be modern” of a group of young boys living in Bubaque
in the Bijagó Islands (Guinea-Bissau), this article shows how the very notion of
development can be reworked and employed in an African context, becoming a means
for exerting social demands against traditional authorities, and an idiom to
express aspirations, needs, and ri |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10362/2688 |
| ISSN: | 1555-2462 |
| Appears in Collections: | FCSH: DA - Artigos em revista internacional com arbitragem científica
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