Dual Class Formation and Agrarian Underdevelopment: An Analysis of the Articulation of Production Relations in Upper Volta

Data on patterns of donor investment in the Upper Volta savanna & Ivory Coast forest regions are analyzed to assess distributions of land control & their effects on West African SC formation. Donor investment is examined as a form of economic dependency promoting state & private SC relat...

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Published in:Canadian journal of African studies 1983-01, Vol.17 (2), p.211-233
Main Author: Reyna, S.P.
Format: Article
Language:eng ; fre
Subjects:
Africa/African/Africans
Agriculture
Burkina Faso
Development
Invest/Invested/Investment/ Investor/ Investors
Ivory Coast
Land/Lands
Social class/Social classes
Upper Volta
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Summary:Data on patterns of donor investment in the Upper Volta savanna & Ivory Coast forest regions are analyzed to assess distributions of land control & their effects on West African SC formation. Donor investment is examined as a form of economic dependency promoting state & private SC relations; the deleterious effects on agrarian laborers of appropriation & demographic enclosure are documented. The system of articulation of these production relations is then outlined, stressing the expansion of colonial & neocolonial reproduction tactics. The Upper Volta experience appears to confirm the hypothesis that underdevelopment itself represents an articulation stage in capitalist development where precapitalist modes remain in effect. 2 Tables. Modified HA.
ISSN:0008-3968
1923-3051
DOI:10.1080/00083968.1983.10804018