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Articles | Volume 76, issue 2
Articles | Volume 76, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-76-163-2021
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Future-making in Burkina Faso: ordering and materializing temporal relations in the Bagré Growth Pole Project

Janine Hauer

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Visions for the future drive current practices and shape daily lives. This is also true for different groups of actors involved in the Bagré Growth Pole Project in Burkina Faso, an initiative to promote agricultural development in one of the poorest countries in the world. Based on 9 months of ethnographic fieldwork, I examine how ideas of the future are used to explain and legitimize how the project proceeds and how lingering conflicts remain unsolved as the future is prioritized.
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