Discursive Development Order and Local Informal Practices : A Development Project in Northern Ethiopia

Language: English

Published by VDM Verlag Dr. Müller, 2009

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nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - To what extent does development discourses shape development practice Drawing on post-structural approaches to development, this monograph provides an ethnographic account of a development projects in Northern Ethiopia. Grounded in empirical research, it analyses the discrepancy between a donor''s rhetorical claims of a participatory and bottom-up approach and the practices of how recipients relate to external knowledge-power formations. This study shows how a small development project is embedded in a global development discourse which has profound effects of inversing attempts of a bottom-up approach. Recipients are, however, not powerless victims. Combining post-development theory s discursive approach with a focus on actors everyday practices yields a more nuanced picture of development discourse s formative power. In the interface between donor and recipient, actors not only adopt but also translate, contest and manipulate external knowledge. As such, this book is both a substantive contribution to the ethnography of aid as well as an important input to the theoretical debate on the interrelationship of discourse and agency.…

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Title
Discursive Development Order and Local Informal Practices : A Development Project in Northern Ethiopia
Author
Jon H. Sande Lie
Publisher
VDM Verlag Dr. Müller
Publication year
2009
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Taschenbuch
Language
English
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3639157486
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9783639157482
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261 grams
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220x176x33 mm

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