Power and religiosity in a post-colonial setting: Sinhala Catholics in contemporary Sri Lanka
In: Cambridge studies in social and cultural anthropology 87
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In: Cambridge studies in social and cultural anthropology 87
In: American anthropologist: AA, Band 108, Heft 1, S. 260-261
ISSN: 1548-1433
A Moral Critique of Development: In Search of Global Responsibilities. Philip van Ufford and Ananta Kumar Giri, eds. New York: Routledge, 2003. 309 pp.
In: The journal of development studies: JDS, Band 30, Heft 3, S. 725-727
ISSN: 0022-0388
In: African affairs: the journal of the Royal African Society, Band 92, Heft 368, S. 477-479
ISSN: 1468-2621
In: African affairs: the journal of the Royal African Society, Band 92, Heft 367, S. 294-300
ISSN: 1468-2621
In: African affairs: the journal of the Royal African Society, Band 92, Heft 367, S. 294-300
ISSN: 0001-9909
In: African affairs: the journal of the Royal African Society, Band 92, Heft 367, S. 294-300
ISSN: 0001-9909
A review article on books by: James Ferguson, The Anti-Politics Machine: 'Development', Depoliticization and Bureaucratic Power in Lesotho (Cambridge: Cambridge U Press, 1990); & Doug Porter, Bryant Allen, & Gaye Thompson, Development in Practice: Paved with Good Intentions (London & New York: Routledge, 1991 [see listings in IRPSPPD No. 28]). Ferguson examines the development discourse & functioning of communities that need aid, through a case study of a development project in central Lesotho involving livestock development, agricultural improvement, & administrative change. Ferguson suggests that development planners do not devise their development solutions through conceptually neutral evaluation of a country's development problems, but instead, construe problems so that they fit the solutions of the standard development discourse of the right technology, modern infrastructure, & control orientation. The Thaba Tseka project in Lesotho illustrates the dynamic; it failed because the assumptions on which it was based were erroneous. Porter, Allen, & Thompson, writing from within the development industry, describe the experience of the Margarini Settlement Project in Kenya. Porter et al describe & critique the control orientation of the Margarani & other projects, calling it the "antithesis of good development practice.". I. Shagrir
In: African affairs: the journal of the Royal African Society, Band 91, Heft 363, S. 303-303
ISSN: 1468-2621
In: The journal of development studies: JDS, Band 28, Heft 3, S. 567-568
ISSN: 0022-0388
In: African affairs: the journal of the Royal African Society, Band 90, Heft 361, S. 636-636
ISSN: 1468-2621
In: International affairs, Band 65, Heft 4, S. 757-758
ISSN: 1468-2346
In: Contributions to Indian sociology, Band 21, Heft 1, S. 67-75
ISSN: 0973-0648
In: Man: the journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Band 19, Heft 2, S. 199
In: Man: the journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Band 16, Heft 2, S. 183
In: Ethnos, Band 42, Heft 3-4, S. 122-148
ISSN: 1469-588X