Development Brokers and Translators: The Ethnography of Aid and Agencies
The success of any international development agency depends on anunderstanding of the ways in which a community and individuals relateto ideas and resources. David Lewis and David Mosse have... This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:156549217X
ISBN13:9781565492172
Release Date:April 2006
Publisher:Kumarian Press
Length:251 Pages
Weight:0.95 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"
Customer Reviews
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not so new approaches
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 17 years ago
The book is valuable for its attention to detail on the practice of development policy. The focus on brokers and negotiators helps to fill out what Mosse and Lewis refer to as the black box of practice. It will be useful for undergraduates in development courses and for academics working on development. However, there is more to practice than brokers and negotiators. A combined approach which includes more critical political economy would help to deal with the question of power and the politics of reproduction and transformation when dealing with development not simply as practice but as a normative idea.
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