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Author |
: James Ferguson |
Publisher |
: CUP Archive |
Total Pages |
: 344 |
Release |
: 1990-06-14 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0521373824 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780521373821 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (24 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Anti-Politics Machine by : James Ferguson
Attributes Canadian withdrawal from the Thaba-Tseka rural development project largely to problems accompanying the expansion of state power ("etatization"). Includes an introductory literature survey on development planning and evaluation in general.
Author |
: Vasudha Chhotray |
Publisher |
: Anthem Press |
Total Pages |
: 282 |
Release |
: 2011 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780857287670 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0857287672 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (70 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Anti-politics Machine in India by : Vasudha Chhotray
This book assesses the validity of 'anti-politics' critiques of development, first popularised by James Ferguson, in the peculiar context of India. It examines the extent to which it is possible to keep politics out of a highly technocratic state watershed development programme that also seeks to be participatory.
Author |
: Terry Golway |
Publisher |
: W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages |
: 511 |
Release |
: 2014-03-03 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780871407924 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0871407922 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (24 Downloads) |
Synopsis Machine Made: Tammany Hall and the Creation of Modern American Politics by : Terry Golway
“Golway’s revisionist take is a useful reminder of the unmatched ingenuity of American politics.”—Wall Street Journal History casts Tammany Hall as shorthand for the worst of urban politics: graft and patronage personified by notoriously crooked characters. In his groundbreaking work Machine Made, journalist and historian Terry Golway dismantles these stereotypes, focusing on the many benefits of machine politics for marginalized immigrants. As thousands sought refuge from Ireland’s potato famine, the very question of who would be included under the protection of American democracy was at stake. Tammany’s transactional politics were at the heart of crucial social reforms—such as child labor laws, workers’ compensation, and minimum wages— and Golway demonstrates that American political history cannot be understood without Tammany’s profound contribution. Culminating in FDR’s New Deal, Machine Made reveals how Tammany Hall “changed the role of government—for the better to millions of disenfranchised recent American arrivals” (New York Observer).
Author |
: James Ferguson |
Publisher |
: Duke University Press |
Total Pages |
: 276 |
Release |
: 2006-02-28 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0822337177 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780822337171 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (77 Downloads) |
Synopsis Global Shadows by : James Ferguson
DIVA collection of Ferguson's essays that bring the question of Africa into the center of current debates on globalization, modernity, and emerging forms of world order./div
Author |
: Arturo Escobar |
Publisher |
: Princeton University Press |
Total Pages |
: 340 |
Release |
: 2012 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780691150451 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0691150451 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (51 Downloads) |
Synopsis Encountering Development by : Arturo Escobar
Originally published: 1995. Paperback reissue, with a new preface by the author.
Author |
: John Aerni-Flessner |
Publisher |
: University of Notre Dame Pess |
Total Pages |
: 270 |
Release |
: 2018-05-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780268103644 |
ISBN-13 |
: 026810364X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (44 Downloads) |
Synopsis Dreams for Lesotho by : John Aerni-Flessner
In Dreams for Lesotho: Independence, Foreign Assistance, and Development, John Aerni-Flessner studies the post-independence emergence of Lesotho as an example of the uneven ways in which people experienced development at the end of colonialism in Africa. The book posits that development became the language through which Basotho (the people of Lesotho) conceived of the dream of independence, both before and after the 1966 transfer of power. While many studies of development have focused on the perspectives of funding governments and agencies, Aerni-Flessner approaches development as an African-driven process in Lesotho. The book examines why both political leaders and ordinary people put their faith in development, even when projects regularly failed to alleviate poverty. He argues that the potential promise of development helped make independence real for Africans. The book utilizes government archives in four countries, but also relies heavily on newspapers, oral histories, and the archives of multilateral organizations like the World Bank. It will interest scholars of decolonization, development, empire, and African and South African history.
Author |
: James Ferguson |
Publisher |
: Univ of California Press |
Total Pages |
: 352 |
Release |
: 1999-10-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780520922280 |
ISBN-13 |
: 052092228X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (80 Downloads) |
Synopsis Expectations of Modernity by : James Ferguson
Once lauded as the wave of the African future, Zambia's economic boom in the 1960s and early 1970s was fueled by the export of copper and other primary materials. Since the mid-1970s, however, the urban economy has rapidly deteriorated, leaving workers scrambling to get by. Expectations of Modernity explores the social and cultural responses to this prolonged period of sharp economic decline. Focusing on the experiences of mineworkers in the Copperbelt region, James Ferguson traces the failure of standard narratives of urbanization and social change to make sense of the Copperbelt's recent history. He instead develops alternative analytic tools appropriate for an "ethnography of decline." Ferguson shows how the Zambian copper workers understand their own experience of social, cultural, and economic "advance" and "decline." Ferguson's ethnographic study transports us into their lives—the dynamics of their relations with family and friends, as well as copper companies and government agencies. Theoretically sophisticated and vividly written, Expectations of Modernity will appeal not only to those interested in Africa today, but to anyone contemplating the illusory successes of today's globalizing economy.
Author |
: Claude Lefort |
Publisher |
: Duke University Press |
Total Pages |
: 364 |
Release |
: 2000 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0822325209 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780822325208 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (09 Downloads) |
Synopsis Writing, the Political Test by : Claude Lefort
One of the preeminient political philosophers of the 20th century makes a compelling argument for the political cogency of literary writing in this book which among to his intellectual autobiography and an introduction to his work.
Author |
: Julie Jenkins |
Publisher |
: CRC Press |
Total Pages |
: 114 |
Release |
: 2017-07-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781351352932 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1351352938 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (32 Downloads) |
Synopsis An Analysis of James Ferguson's The Anti-Politics Machine by : Julie Jenkins
The Anti-Politics Machine (1990) examines how international development projects are conceived, researched, and put into practice. It also looks at what these projects actually achieve. Ferguson criticizes the idea of externally-directed ‘development’ and argues that the process doesn’t take proper account of the daily realities of the communities it is intended to benefit. Instead, they often prioritize technical solutions for addressing poverty and ignoring its social and political dimensions, so the structures that these projects put in place often have unintended consequences. Ferguson suggests that until the process becomes more reflective, development projects will continue to fail.
Author |
: Philip Verwimp |
Publisher |
: Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages |
: 283 |
Release |
: 2013-06-03 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789400764347 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9400764340 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (47 Downloads) |
Synopsis Peasants in Power by : Philip Verwimp
This book shows how Rwanda’s development model and the organisation of genocide are two sides of the same coin. In the absence of mineral resources, the elite organised and managed the labour of peasant producers as efficient as possible. In order to stay in power and benefit from it, the presidential clan chose a development model that would not change the political status quo. When the latter was threatened, the elite invoked the preservation of group welfare of the Hutu, called for Hutu unity and solidarity and relied on the great mass (rubanda nyamwinshi) for the execution of the genocide. A strategy as simple as it is horrific. The genocide can be regarded as the ultimate act of self-preservation through annihilation under the veil of self-defense. Why did tens of thousands of ordinary people massacred tens of thousands other ordinary people in Rwanda in 1994? What has agricultural policy and rural ideology to do with it? What was the role of the Akazu, the presidential clan around president Habyarimana? Did the civil war cause the genocide? And what insights can a political economy perspective offer ? Based on more than ten years of research, and engaging with competing and complementary arguments of authors such as Peter Uvin, Alison Des Forges, Scott Strauss, René Lemarchand, Filip Reyntjens, Mahmood Mamdani and André Guichaoua, the author blends economics, politics and agrarian studies to provide a new way of understanding the nexus between development and genocide in Rwanda. Students and practitioners of development as well as everyone interested in the causes of violent conflict and genocide in Africa and around the world will find this book compelling to read. .