Whose Development?: An Ethnography of Aid
Author:   Emma Crewe ,  Elizabeth Harrison
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Pages:   224
Publication Date:   01 December 1998
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   Emma Crewe ,  Elizabeth Harrison
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Zed Books Ltd
Dimensions:   Width: 13.50cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 21.50cm
Weight:   0.260kg
ISBN:  

9781856496063


ISBN 10:   1856496066
Pages:   224
Publication Date:   01 December 1998
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1. Development Aid: Successes and Failures 2. An Intellectual Heritage of Development 3. The Gender Agenda 4. Partnership 5. Technology and Expertise 6. Money and Motivation: 'My Wife Helps Me with Everything' 7. Cultural Barriers: The Triumph of Tradition over Modernity 8. Who is in the Driving Seat? 9. The Cohesive Machine

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This book moves beyond the conventional deconstruction of development and stimulates new, relational ways of thinking about it. * Cecile Jackson, University of East Anglia * A fine-grained ethnography of aid... showing well the context sensitivity of all participants in development projects and their multiple identities and shifting roles. * Frederique Apffel-Marglin, Smith College, Massachusetts * A rich picture of the complexities and power relations involved in foreign aid. * Michael Edwards, NGO Division, World Bank *


'A fine-grained ethnography of aid... showing well the context sensitivity of all participants in development projects and their multiple identities and shifting roles.' - Frederique Apffel-Marglin, Smith College, USA 'This book moves beyond the conventional deconstruction of development and stimulates new, relational ways of thinking about it.' - Cecile Jackson, University of East Anglia 'A rich picture of the complexities and power relations involved in foreign aid.' - Michael Edwards, NGO Division, World Bank


Author Information

Emma Crewe lectures in the Department of Anthropology, University College, London. Elizabeth Harrison lectures at the School of African and Asian Studies, University of Sussex.

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