An ethnography of NGO practice in India : utopias of development /
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| Author / Creator: | Allen, Stewart, author. |
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| Imprint: | Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2018. ©2018 |
| Description: | x, 175 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | New ethnographies New ethnographies. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11712719 |
| Summary: | 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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| Physical Description: | x, 175 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [163]-172) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781784992996 1784992992 9781526127556 1526127555 |
