Carswell and Maack on soil erosion policies

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Carswell and Maack on soil erosion policies

Similarities

  • Carswell
  • Looks at the mundane elements of resistance to policies such as who was being asked to perform them, what was already in place.
  • Kigezi experienced success in implementation with little resistance.
  • There was a lot of coercion

Differences

  • Maack
  • Soil erosion had been cause by overpopulation, overcultivation.
  • Terraces were the proposed solution to soil erosion
  • Even the native authorities were resisted much to the surprise of the British colonial government: they had assumed complete power of the chiefs but were mistaken. When the chiefs did not support the wishes of the natives, they turned against them.
  • They would grow cash crops to sell to be able to pay their taxes, and vegetables which were hard work but in demand for Europeans --> higher profits.
  • 3/5 didn't succeed. Why?
  • the Africans resisted this proposal: it challenged their traditions
  • British ignorance of culture in making unmarried men and women labour communally.
  • Traditional African knowledge and experience overlooked and condemned for being unscientific.

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