| An Ethnography of Ngo Practice in India: Utopias of Development Contributor(s): Allen, Stewart (Author) |
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ISBN: 1784992992 ISBN-13: 9781784992996 Publisher: Manchester University Press OUR PRICE: $123.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: August 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Anthropology - General |
| Series: New Ethnographies |
| Physical Information: 0.5" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (0.99 lbs) 192 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
