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  • THE GEZIRA SCHEME
    TONY BARNETT
    Gezira is the Arabic word meaning ‘island* or ‘peninsula*. It crops up in place names throughout the Arab world, notably in the name Algeria which is an anglicized form of the Arabic al-guzayir, ‘the islands*. In the Sudan, Gezira means only one thing. It refers to that vast area of land which lies between the Blue and the White Nile. In particular, though, it refers to the par...

    $1,480.00

  • SUDAN
    TONY BARNETT
    By the mid-1980s, Sudan’s economy, society and political framework were on the point of disintegration. Civil war was exacerbating the effects of an already major famine. An unpopular government was resorting to ever more extreme measures in order to remain in power. The imposition of a particularly oppressive and hash interpretation of sharia law was heightening racial and rel...

    $1,100.00

  • SUDAN
    ABBAS ABDELKARIM / TONY BARNETT
    The authors propose that the Gezira scheme has played a paradoxical role in the capitalist transformation of the Sudan - reinforcing some non-capitalist production relations while at the same time acting as an engine for the peripheral capitalist development. ...

    $2,220.00

  • BEYOND THE SOCIOLOGY OF DEVELOPMENT
    OXAAL, IVAR / BARNETT, TONY / BOOTH, DAVID
    Conceived as a response to the economic naïvety and implicit metropolitan bias of many 1950s and 60s studies of ‘the sociology of development’ , this volume, first published in 1975, provides actual field studies and theoretical reviews to indicate the directions which a conceptually more adequate study of developing societies should take. Much of the book reflects strongly the...

    $1,320.00

  • SOCIOLOGY AND DEVELOPMENT
    TONY BARNETT
    First Published in 1988. This stimulating and original book examines how sociological theory helps us to understand development. The author, writing with clarity and from long practical experience in the field of development, aims to show how different sociological theories cast light on the process of development both in the 'Third World' and in the 'Developed World'. He pays ...

    $2,040.00