1.

Record Nr.

UNISALENTO991003534259707536

Autore

Whythorne, Thomas

Titolo

The autobiography of Thomas Whythorne / edited by James M. Osborn

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : Oxford University press, 1962

Edizione

[Modern spelling ed.]

Descrizione fisica

XIII, 241 p. : ill. ; 23 cm

Altri autori (Persone)

Osborn, James M.

Disciplina

821.3

Soggetti

Whythorne, Thomas Autobiografia

Whythorne, Thomas Autobiografia

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910813181803321

Autore

Allen Stewart

Titolo

An ethnography of NGO practice in India : utopias of development / / Stewart Allen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Manchester, MI : , : Manchester University Press, , 2018

ISBN

1-5261-2755-5

1-5261-2754-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (x, 175 pages) : illustrations

Collana

New ethnographies

Disciplina

068.54

Soggetti

Non-governmental organizations - India - Rajastha

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

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.