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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 |
: U of Minnesota Press |
Total Pages |
: 344 |
Release |
: 1994 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0816624372 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780816624379 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (72 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Anti-politics Machine by : James Ferguson
Development, it is generally assumed, is good and necessary, and in its name the West has intervened, implementing all manner of projects in the impoverished regions of the world. When these projects fail, as they do with astonishing regularity, they nonetheless produce a host of regular and unacknowledged effects, including the expansion of bureaucratic state power and the translation of the political realities of poverty and powerlessness into "technical" problems awaiting solution by "development" agencies and experts. It is the political intelligibility of these effects, along with the process that produces them, that this book seeks to illuminate through a detailed case study of the workings of the "development" industry in one country, Lesotho, and in one "development" project. Using an anthropological approach grounded in the work of Foucault, James Ferguson analyzes the institutional framework within which such projects are crafted and the nature of "development discourse," revealing how it is that, despite all the "expertise" that goes into formulating development projects, they nonetheless often demonstrate a startling ignorance of the historical and political realities of the locale they are intended to help. In a close examination of the attempted implementation of the Thaba-Tseka project in Lesotho, Ferguson shows how such a misguided approach plays out, how, in fact, the "development" apparatus in Lesotho acts as an "anti-politics machine," everywhere whisking political realities out of sight and all the while performing, almost unnoticed, its own pre-eminently political operation of strengthening the state presence in the local region.James Ferguson is an associate professor of anthropology at the University of California at Irvine.
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 |
: 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 |
: 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 |
: 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 |
: 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.