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This book explores NGO presence through detailing relationships, personhoods and meaning making in a collection of Northern Malawian fishing villages. Its key claim is that NGOs’ projects and resources have less impact on villagers’ lives than the symbols they emit and the ways they encourage re-imaging development and renegotiating intra-community obligations and entitlements.

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[...] Any scholar or expert or student pursuing development work or academic work in African Studies will greatly benefit from McNamara’s detailed accounting of a dependency-based economy that is re-imagined on the local level through negotiated meanings within local leadership. His work brings the national political economy’s role and North South relations into full view by demonstrating NGO s limited agency in local development. [...] Jamaine Abidogun, Missouri State University, in Research Africa Reviews Vol. 7 No. 1, April 2023, pp. 69-73

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Thomas McNamara, Ph.D. (2016), University of Melbourne, is a lecturer at La Trobe University, and an FNRS researcher at the University of Liege. His research explores how Global South economies are shaped by relationships and norms relating to ‘development’.

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