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Title Groups, classes and peasant politics in Ghana and Papua New Guinea | ||
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http://hdl.handle.net/1885/128783 | ||
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Date 1979 | ||
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Author(s) Gerritsen, Rolf | ||
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Abstract This thesis is a study of the politics of the big peasant class in Ghana and Papua New Guinea. The big peasants emerged from pre-existent rural elites during the development of cash cropping associated with the interaction between Ghanaian and Papua New Guinean societies and the world economy. Some attempt is made to take account of the diversity of local responses to that interaction. The politics of the big peasantry was mainly group politics . These groups were primarily parochial. They had national linkages through brokers and reciprocal relationships with governmental personnel , particularly in agricultural extension services. It was not until the 1950s that Ghanaian big peasants formed an interest group on the national level. In Papua New Guinea big peasant interest associations have yet to transcend provincial boundaries. The arguments about the nature of the big peasants' socioeconomic development and for group-oriented politics are elucidated in a series of case studies of big peasant/group politics ill various locales. Two chapters, three and seven, provide a general introduction to the rural development of Gnana and Papua New Guinea and serve as background to the case studies. An emphasis has been placed on the innovative, restless elements of peasant character. The big peasants in Ghana and Papua New Guinea are innovative for two reasons: an initial security based on the subsistence affluence of their societies, and increasing awareness of their position within a terminal development economy. The big peasants' entrepreneurial activism is in fact a frenetic attempt to evade the reality that they are in an economic cul de sac. | ||
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Subject(s) Papua New Guinea Social conditions; Papua New Guinea Economic conditions; Ghana Economic conditions; Ghana Social conditions | ||
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Language en | ||
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Type of publication Thesis (PhD) | ||
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Format 1v. | ||
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Identifier b1230182 | ||
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Repository Canberra - Australian National University 
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