An Ethnography of Ngo Practice in India : Utopias of Development Hardback
by Stewart Allen
Part of the New Ethnographies series
Hardback
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Through an ethnographic study of the ‘Barefoot College’, an internationally renowned non- governmental development organisation (NGO) situated in Rajasthan, India, this book investigates the methods and practices by which a development organisation materialises and manages a construction of success.
Paying particular attention to the material processes by which success is achieved and the different meanings and discourses that they act to perform, this book offers a timely and novel approach to how the world of development NGOs and development ideologies work.
The author argues that the College, as a prolific producer of various forms of development media, achieves its success through materially mediated heterotopic spectacles: enacted and imperfect utopias that constitute the desires, imaginings and Otherness of its society.
The chapters that follow consider the different scenarios through which success was realised at the College. -- .
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:192 pages, 12 black & white illustrations
- Publisher:Manchester University Press
- Publication Date:17/08/2018
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- ISBN:9781784992996
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Only a few left - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:192 pages, 12 black & white illustrations
- Publisher:Manchester University Press
- Publication Date:17/08/2018
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- ISBN:9781784992996
