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Record Nr.

UNINA9910812717703321

Autore

Lie Jon Harald Sande

Titolo

Developmentality : an ethnography of the World Bank-Uganda partnership / / Jon Harald Sande Lie

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Berghahn Books, , [2015]

©2015

ISBN

1-78238-841-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (280 p.)

Disciplina

332.1/532096761

Soggetti

Economic assistance - Uganda

Economic development - Uganda - International cooperation

Economic development - International cooperation

International economic relations - Political aspects

Uganda Economic policy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Bergen, 2011, under the title: Developmentality : an ethnography of the new aid architecture and the formation of the World Bank-Uganda partnership.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introducing developmentality -- Developmentality -- The World Bank and the new aid architecture--the official discourse -- Moving beyond official discourse : interfaces and disjuncture within the Bank -- A meeting of partners : developmentality as seen from Uganda -- Developmentality and the politics of harmonisation -- A metamorphosis of power relations? : the new aid architecture, partnership and the state -- Conclusion : revisiting developmentality.

Sommario/riassunto

Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork within the World Bank and a Ugandan ministry, this book critically examines how the new aid architecture recasts aid relations as a partnership. While intended to alter an asymmetrical relationship by fostering greater recipient participation and ownership, this book demonstrates how donors still seek to retain control through other indirect and informal means. The concept of developmentality shows how the World Bank’s ability to steer a client’s behavior is disguised by the underlying ideas of



partnership, ownership, and participation, which come with other instruments through which the Bank manipulates the aid recipient into aligning with its own policies and practices.