How Development Projects Persist: Everyday Negotiations with Guatemalan NGOs - Couverture rigide

Beck, Erin

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0822369613 ISBN 13 : 9780822369615

Editeur : Duke University Press, 2017

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Erin Beck is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Oregon.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Duke University Press
• Date d'édition: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0822369613
• ISBN 13: 9780822369615
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 280
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• Personne responsable: non disponible