E-Book, Englisch, 224 Seiten
Reihe: New Ethnographies
Allen An ethnography of NGO practice in India
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-5261-2755-6
Verlag: NYU Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark
Utopias of development
E-Book, Englisch, 224 Seiten
Reihe: New Ethnographies
ISBN: 978-1-5261-2755-6
Verlag: NYU Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark
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.




