Shifting Logic in Area Development Practices (King's Soas Studies in Development Geography) - Hardcover

Van Den Ham, Allert; Veenstra, Jan; Ham, Allert Van Den

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0754631400 ISBN 13: 9780754631408

Publisher: Ashgate Pub Ltd, 2004

Synopsis

Within the arena of international development co-operation, favoured development policies and project approaches change over time in normative, strategic and operational content. Area-specific approaches appear to be selected on three interlinked on key development practitioners' own inward-looking perspectives; on their outward-looking, professional bodies of knowledge; on their problem and action orientations as continuously tried out in practice. From a lifelong "remote" journey as project development workers, the authors of this unique volume bring together seven in-depth case studies from Africa and Asia, ranging from the 1960s to the present. They investigate whether "foreign" projects influence "iron-caged" policy attitudes at national level, and whether they could bring about changes in a strategic and operational sense. The book will appeal to academics and professionals in the fields of planning and development studies, in particular development politics and geography, and rural development.

Edition details

• Publisher: Ashgate Pub Ltd
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0754631400
• ISBN 13: 9780754631408
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 430