Developmentality: An Ethnography of the World Bank-Uganda Partnership

Jon Harald Sande Lie

ISBN 10: 1782388400 / ISBN 13: 9781782388401

Published by Berghahn Books, 2015

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Developmentality: An Ethnography of the World Bank-Uganda Partnership
• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1782388400
• ISBN 13: 9781782388401
• Binding: Hardback
• Condition: New
• Weight: 597 grams

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Synopsis

Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork within the World Bank and a Ugandan ministry, this book critically examines how the new aid architecture recasts aid relations as a partnership. While intended to alter an asymmetrical relationship by fostering greater recipient participation and ownership, this book demonstrates how donors still seek to retain control through other indirect and informal means. The concept of developmentality shows how the World Bank’s ability to steer a client’s behavior is disguised by the underlying ideas of partnership, ownership, and participation, which come with other instruments through which the Bank manipulates the aid recipient into aligning with its own policies and practices.

About the Author

Jon Harald Sande Lie is a Senior Research Fellow at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI). He is co-editor of Forum for Development Studies, and has published in the journals Social Analysis, Millennium, and African Security. He is also the co-editor of Security and Development (Berghahn Books 2010).