Practising Development : Social Science Perspectives.
Title:
Practising Development : Social Science Perspectives.
Author:
Pottier, Johan.
ISBN:
9780203420706
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (233 pages)
Contents:
Cover -- Title -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Notes on contributors -- Preface -- Introduction: development in practice: assessing social science perspectives -- 1 The role of ethnography in project appraisal -- 2 Agencies and young people: runaways and young homeless in Wales -- 3 Anthropologists or anthropology? The Band Aid perspective on development projects -- 4 Anthropology and appraisal: the preparation of two IFAD pastoral development projects in Niger and Mali -- 5 Development in Madura: an anthropological approach -- 6 Project appraisals: the need for methodological guidelines -- 7 Anthropology in farming systems research: a participant observer in Zambia -- 8 Representing knowledge: the 'new farmer' in research fashions -- 9 'Eze-vu'-success through evaluation: lessons from a primary health-care project in North Yemen -- Index.
Abstract:
Throughout the 1980s there have been calls, often from development organizations of global repute, for the incorporation of social science perspectives into the design and management of sustainable development programmes. Practising Development is the first collection to offer first-hand critical assessments of the success and failures found within actual responses to these calls. By combining academic and practical experience from anthropology, development and aid organizations the contributors examine the processes of intervention, the methods by which this intervention can be assessed, and explain the socio-economic and political worlds within which intervention and development evolve.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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