Cultivating Development An Ethnography of Aid Policy and Practice
| Author/creator | Mosse, David Author |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | London : Pluto Press Gordonsville : Macmillan [Distributor] |
| Description | 336 p. ill 08.000 x 06.000 in. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Series | Anthropology, Culture and Society Ser. |
| Summary | Annotation <div>Development agencies and researchers are preoccupied with policy; with exerting influence over policy, linking research to policy and with implementing policy around the world. But what if development practice is 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.</div> |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2004004512 |
| ISBN | 9780745317991 |
| ISBN | 0745317995 (Trade Cloth) Active Record |
| Standard identifier# | 9780745317991 |
| Stock number | 00314859 |