Development And Disenchantment In Rural Tunisia: The Bourguiba Years

by Mira Zussman

Overview

My first introduction to the lower Medjerda Valley was in 1976 byWerner Kiene, then director of economic development programs in NorthAfrica for the Ford Foundation, and by professors Ali Ben Zaid Salmi andMonee£ Ben Said, codirectors of the Department of Rural Social Sciences atthe National Agronomy Institute of Tunisia (INA TI. The region ofMedjerdaturned out to be an ideal fieldsite, and I am grateful to the team at INAT forintroducing me to the region. My fieldwork in the late 1970s was supportedby two sources: A Fulbright Hays Research Fellowship and an InternationalDoctoral Research Fellowship provided jointly by the Social Science ResearchCouncil (SSRC) and the American Council for Learned Societies. Subsequenttravel grants from the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at the Universityof California, Berkeley, and California State University Faculty ResearchGrants also were instrumental to this study. Without the financial supportof these organizations, this research could riot have been conducted.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780367016029
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	09/13/2019
Pages:	240
Product dimensions:	5.75(w) x 8.75(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

List of Tables and nlustrations — Preface — Introduction — 1 Land and Cynicism — 2 Uneasy Dualisms — 3 Local Distinctions — 4 Debates over Mentality — 5 Strategies of the Fellahin — 6 Access to the Souri World — 7 Mutual Diseachantments — Appendix A-Glossary of Arabic Terms — Appendix B-Glossary of French Terms — Appendix C-Tribal Fractions of Delegation of Medjerda (1900) — Bibliography — I. Archives — II. Documents — III. Books and Journals — Index.

Editorial Reviews

An ethnographic study of Medjerda, an agricultural community in northern Tunisia, focusing on the failure of land reform and economic planning in the postcolonial period. Emphasizes the peasants' interpretations of the government schemes, and how their resistance was a survival tactic developed through colonial encounters of the past. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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