Transforming Sudan: Decolonization, Economic Development, and State Formation: 140 (African Studies, Series Number 140)
Cambridge University Press, 12/7/2017
EAN 9781107172494, ISBN10: 1107172497
Hardcover, 194 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.4 cm
Language: English
Following the conclusion of the Second World War, the nature of inequality in Africa was dramatically altered. In this book, Alden Young traces the emergence of economic developmentalism as the ideology of the Sudanese state in the decolonization era. Young demonstrates how the state was transformed, as a result of the international circulation of tools of economic management and the practice of economic diplomacy, from the management of a collection of distinct populations, to the management of a national economy based on individual equality. By studying the hope and eventual disillusionment this ideology gave to late colonial officials and then Sudanese politicians and policymakers, Young demonstrates its rise, and also its shortfalls as a political project in Sudan, particularly its inability to deal with questions of regional and racial equity, not only showing how it fostered state formation, but also civil war.
Introduction
the economizing logic of the state
1. From colonial economics to political economy 1820–1940
2. Planning and the territorial perspective, 1945 until 1951
3. Calculable development, 1951 to 1954
4. The new finance officials
5. The nation, in whose name they could act
the military and national income accounting
6. A nation-state alone cannot transform its destiny
Conclusion
towards a new African economic history
Bibliography
Index.