5 - Sustainable Development in the African Context: Revisiting Some Theoretical and Methodological Issues: by George J S Dei

George J S Dei

doi:10.57054/ad.v18i2.2641

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Vol. 18 No. 2 (1993): Africa Development

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5 - Sustainable Development in the African Context: Revisiting Some Theoretical and Methodological Issues

by George J S Dei

https://doi.org/10.57054/ad.v18i2.2641

George J S Dei

Department of Sociology, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4733-6682

Corresponding Author(s) : George J S Dei

gdei@oise.utoronto.ca

Africa Development, Vol. 18 No. 2 (1993): Africa Development
Article Published : May 20, 1993

Abstract

L'accent de plus en plus mis sur 'le développement durable' permettra- t- il d'éviter les échecs auxquels ont abouti les paradigmes de développement classiques? Ces paradigmes avaient tendance à reproduire et à intensifier les rapports inégaux de dépendance entre les nations. Ils renforçaient voire maximisaient les structures de contrôle, d' exploitation, d' injustice et d' inégalité entre et dans les sociétés. Les différences hiérarchiques de pouvoir entre les experts et les spécialistes locaux ainsi que la légitimation et la prioritarisation d'une forme de connaissance sur une autre qui en découle en sont des exemples patents. Le développement durable, pour ra- 1- il générer un processus de renforcement de l'expertise locale en mettant en place un programme de développement qui part d'une définition par les locaux de leurs besoins et aspirations et qui s'efforce de satisfaire- ces besoins par une auto- suffisance et une autonomie des ressources locales? Ou est-il un nouveau programme destiné à écarter notre attention des débats sur les inégalités criardes qui existent entre le Sud et le Nord du fait principalement des relations économiques mondiales d'exploitation? Par ces temps d' environnements naturels et d' économies locales, nationales et mondiales qui évoluent rapidement, le développement durable peut- il tenir compte du contexte changeant de ce problème?

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George J S Dei 1993. 5 - Sustainable Development in the African Context: Revisiting Some Theoretical and Methodological Issues: by George J S Dei. Africa Development. 18, 2 (May 1993). DOI:https://doi.org/10.57054/ad.v18i2.2641.

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Ankornah, B, 1987, 'Debt Rescheduling Brightens the Outlook'. Africa11 Business, February, No. 102./

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Brokensha, D W, D W, Warren, and 0, Werner, 1980, lndigenoys Knowledge Systems and Development Lenham, Md: University Press of America, Inc. ·

Daugherty, H E, C A, Jeanneret-Grosjean, and H F, Fletcher, 1979, Eco-development and international Co-operation: Potential Applications in EI-Salvador. Ottawa, CIDA.

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Michigan. '

Dei, G J S, 1988a, 'Crisis and Adaptation in a Ghanaian Forest Cor!imunity'. Allllvopological

Quar1erly 62 (1): 63-72.

Dei, G J S, 1988b, 'Hunting and Gathering in a Ghanaian Rain Forest Community'. Ecology of Food and

NuJrition 22 (3):225-44.

Dei, G J S, 1990a, 'The Changing Land Use and Allocation Patterns of a West African Community'.

Africa Developmelll 15 (1):25-44.

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a, 'A Forest Beyond The Trees'. Huma11 Ecology, Volume 20, Number 2. Dei, G J S, 1992b,

Hardship and Swrvival ÙI Rwral Wesl Africa. Dakar, CODESRIA.

Dei, G J S, 1992c, 'lndigenous African Knowledge Systems: Local Traditions of Sustainable Forestry'

(forthcoming).

Author Biography

George J S Dei, Department of Sociology, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

George Jerry Sefa Dei is a professor at Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto. He is known for his anti-racist research, particularly on anti-racist approaches to education. He is also known for his advocacy for African-focused schools in Canada. In 2007, he was installed as the chief (Adumakwaahene) of the town of Asokore, Ghana.