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Discourses of Development

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  • ISBN13:

    9781859739402

  • ISBN10:

    1859739407

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 1997-10-01
  • Publisher: Berg Pub Ltd

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Summary

'Development' is clearly a contentious concept. It is common knowledge that there is frequently a troubling divide between what Western developers think development entails and how those people affected understand the ensuing processes. By treating development as problematic, this book seeks to generate new insights into the relationships between the various parties involved and to enhance understanding of the ways in which particular 'discourses of development' are generated. Authors raise provocative questions about the relationship of politics, power, ideology and rhetoric to the institutional practice of development. These hegemonic considerations are shown to have a profound effect on the 'culture of aid' and the interface between development personnel and those whom development is supposed to benefit.

Table of Contents

Preface vii(2)
Notes on Contributors ix
1 Discourses of Development: The View from Anthropology
1(34)
R. D. Grillo
2 Webs of Power and the Construction of Environmental Policy Problems: Forest Loss in Guinea
35(24)
James Fairhead
Melissa Leach
3 The Silent Traditions of Developing Cooks
59(22)
Emma Crewe
4 The Donors' Discourse: Official Social Development Knowledge in the 1980s
81(26)
Alan Rew
5 Watching the Developers: A Partial Ethnography
107(26)
Georgia Kaufmann
6 Mixed Messages: Contested `Development' and the `Plantation Rehabilitation Project'
133(24)
Katy Gardner
7 Gender Politics, Development and Women's Agency in Rajasthan
157(26)
Maya Unnithan
Kavita Srivastava
8 Three Critical Issues in Community Health Development Projects in Kenya
183(20)
David O. Nyamwaya
9 Towards an Ethnography of Participatory Appraisal and Research
203(26)
Johan Pottier
10 Alternative Vocabularies of Development? `Community' and `Participation' in Development Discourse in Sri Lanka
229(26)
Michael D. Woost
11 The Ideology and Politics of Community Participation: Tank Irrigation Development in Colonial and Contemporary Tamil Nadu
255(38)
David Mosse
Index 293

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