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Autore: | Allen Stewart |
Titolo: | An ethnography of NGO practice in India : utopias of development / / Stewart Allen |
Pubblicazione: | Manchester, MI : , : Manchester University Press, , 2018 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (x, 175 pages) : illustrations |
Disciplina: | 068.54 |
Soggetto topico: | Non-governmental organizations - India - Rajastha |
Soggetto non controllato: | Barefoot College |
Bunker Roy | |
Development | |
Heterotopia | |
NGO | |
Solar | |
Spectacle | |
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. |
Titolo autorizzato: | An ethnography of NGO practice in India |
ISBN: | 1-5261-2755-5 |
1-5261-2754-7 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910813181803321 |
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