Description
Product ID: | 9781784992996 |
Product Form: | Hardback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Series: | New Ethnographies |
Title: | An Ethnography of Ngo Practice in India |
Subtitle: | Utopias of Development |
Authors: | Author: Stewart Allen |
Page Count: | 192 |
Subjects: | Anthropology, Anthropology, India |
Description: | Select Guide Rating 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 -- . Through an ethnographic study of an internationally renowned 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 are performed, this book offers a timely and novel approach to how the world of development NGOs and development ideologies work. The author argues that the organisation, 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. |
Imprint Name: | Manchester University Press |
Publisher Name: | Manchester University Press |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2018-08-17 |