How Development Projects Persist

Everyday Negotiations with Guatemalan NGOs

Inbunden, Engelska, 2017

AvErin Beck

1 949 kr

Beställningsvara. Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar. Fri frakt för medlemmar vid köp för minst 249 kr.

Finns i fler format (1)

Häftad

479 kr

Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar

In How Development Projects Persist Erin Beck examines microfinance NGOs working in Guatemala and problematizes the accepted wisdom of how NGOs function. Drawing on twenty months of ethnographic fieldwork, she shows how development models and plans become entangled in the relationships among local actors in ways that alter what they are, how they are valued, and the conditions of their persistence. Beck focuses on two NGOs that use drastically different methods in working with poor rural women in Guatemala. She highlights how each program's beneficiaries-diverse groups of savvy women-exercise their agency by creatively appropriating, resisting, and reinterpreting the lessons of the NGOs to match their personal needs. Beck uses this dynamic-in which the goals of the developers and women do not often overlap-to theorize development projects as social interactions in which policymakers, workers, and beneficiaries critically shape what happens on the ground. This book displaces the notion that development projects are top-down northern interventions into a passive global south by offering a provocative account of how local conditions, ongoing interactions, and even fundamental tensions inherent in development work allow such projects to persist, but in new and unexpected ways.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2017-05-15
Mått152 x 229 x 20 mm
Vikt522 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor280
FörlagDuke University Press
ISBN9780822369615

Tillhör följande kategorier

Genusvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Politisk aktivism inom Samhälle och politik
Antropologi inom Samhälle och politik

Acknowledgments vii1. Social Engineering from Above and Below 12. Repackaging Development in Guatemala 293. Namaste's Bootstrap Model 644. Women and Workers Responding to Bootstrap Development 905. The Fraternity's Holistic Model 1346. The Uneven Practices and Experiences of Holistic Development 1627. The Implications of Socially Constructed Development 208Appendix. Research Methods and Ethical Dilemmas 225Notes 233References 239Index 259

"Erin Beck has made a lasting contribution to the field of development studies in theorising development as a social interaction while also raising important issues for policy and practice. How Development Projects Persist is a call to contemplate, assess and study development not simply according to the goals of policymakers and organisations, but according to the larger vision and life goals of the people that interventions hope to serve."- Bronwen Gillespie (Anthropology in Action) "The strength of Why Development Projects Persist is the quality of Beck’s data. . . . Beck writes her ethnographic data with completeness and clarity, which allows the reader to understand the intentions of these organizations, the worldviews of participants, and the ways these clashed as the NGOs’ visions of development were put into practice." - Laura J. Heideman (American Journal of Sociology) "The text’s strength lies in its conceptual breadth and accessibility. . . . An easy, yet enlightening read. . . . Beck effectively shows rather than just tells what development encounters look like and how they are interpreted by the actors involved." - Monica DeHart (Anthropological Quarterly) “This book. . . is useful to those interested in international studies, development studies, as well as development practitioners. . . . Further, Beck’s detailed analysis is well-written and jargon-free, and presents us with a balanced and longitudinal view of NGO development projects in Guatemala.”- Michelle Moran-Taylor (Journal of Latin American Geography)