What if development agencies and researchers are not driven by policy?
Suppose that the things that make for 'good policy' - policy that
legitimises and mobilises political support - in reality make it
impossible to implement?
By focusing in detail on the unfolding activities of a development
project in western India over more than ten years, as it falls under
different policy regimes, this book takes a close look at the
relationship between policy and practice in development. David Mosse
shows how the actions of development workers are shaped by the
exigencies of organisations and the need to maintain relationships
rather than by policy; but also that development actors work hardest
of all to maintain coherent representations of their actions as
instances of authorised policy. Raising unfamiliar questions, Mosse
provides a rare self-critical reflection on practice, while refusing
to endorse current post-modern dismissal of development.
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An Ethnography of Aid Policy and Practice
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ISBN
9781849641234
Publisert
2016
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Vendor
Pluto Press
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Product language
Engelsk
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Digital bok
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