International Labor and Working-Class History
Volume 92, 2017, Pages 69-88

A Grandiose Future for Italian Somalia: Colonial Developmentalist Discourse, Agricultural Planning, and Forced Labor (1900-1940) (Review)

Urbano A.*
  • a University of Edinburgh, Bayreuth Academy of Advanced African Studies, University of Bayreuth, Germany

Abstract

This article explores the evolution of a developmentalist discourse for colonial Somalia and the attempts of the colonial government to present agricultural plans and labor policies as efforts to bring about social and economic development for colonial subjects and profit for colonial investors. In the long term, these efforts provided both a justification and a scope for the colonial venture. Fostering intensive farming and commercial agriculture, development planning institutionalized forced labor, disrupted the local production of foodstuff, and made the colony dependent on foreign imports. © 2017 International Labor and Working-Class History, Inc..

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https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85046654864&doi=10.1017%2fS0147547917000096&partnerID=40&md5=760ada4c7ee9b8f94d5a449273a3d888
DOI: 10.1017/S0147547917000096
ISSN: 01475479
Original Language: English