Shifting Logic in Area Development Practices

van den Ham, Allert; Veenstra, Jan

ISBN 10: 0754631400 / ISBN 13: 9780754631408

Published by Ashgate Publishing, Limited, Aldershot, United Kingdom, 2004

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Shifting Logic in Area Development Practices
• Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Limited, Aldershot, United Kingdom
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0754631400
• ISBN 13: 9780754631408
• Binding: hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket
• Book Type: Used
• Seller catalogs:
  • Economics

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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.