Bibliograph

Cultivating development, an ethnography of aid policy and practice, David Mosse

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Cultivating development, an ethnography of aid policy and practice, David Mosse

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Cultivating development

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

David Mosse

Series statement

Anthropology, culture, and society

Sub title

an ethnography of aid policy and practice

Summary

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

Target audience

adult

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