villagization

[ vil-i-juh-zey-shuhn ]

noun

1. the transfer of land to village control.

Word History and Origins

Origin of villagization¹

First recorded in 1965–70; village + -ization

Example Sentences

“Seeing Like a State,” published a decade later, looked at the limitations of state power from the other end, examining — through examples as diverse as 18th-century German scientific forestry and “villagization” in 1970s Tanzania — the way that “high modernist” social engineering doomed itself by ignoring local custom and practical knowledge, which Mr. Scott, borrowing the classical Greek word for wisdom, calls “metis.”

From New York Times

Those policies include a population-resettlement program, the opening of Soviet-style collective farms and a "villagization" effort that moves farmers off their isolated homesteads and into government-built settlements.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Ethiopian leader has launched two vast population projects that could eventually reshape his nation: resettlement and "villagization."

From Time Magazine Archive

Addis Ababa's villagization program has relocated more than 3 million peasants from their scattered hilltop farms in Harar and neighboring provinces to centralized villages.

From Time Magazine Archive

Plans call for villagization ultimately to relocate some 30 million people.

From Time Magazine Archive