An Ethnography of Ngo Practice in India: Utopias of Development

di Stewart Allen (Autore)

Manchester University Press, 2018

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. -- .

• Autore: Stewart Allen
• Editore: Manchester University Press
• Collana: New Ethnographies
• Anno: 2018
• Rilegatura: Hardback
• Pagine: 192 p.
• Dimensioni: 234 x 156 mm
• Peso: 449 gr.
• EAN: 9781784992996

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