Anti Politics Machine
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The Anti Politics Machine
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Author : James Ferguson
language : en
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Release Date : 1994
The Anti Politics Machine written by James Ferguson and has been published by U of Minnesota Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Business & Economics categories.
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.
The Anti Politics Machine
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Author : James Ferguson
language : en
Publisher: CUP Archive
Release Date : 1990-06-14
The Anti Politics Machine written by James Ferguson and has been published by CUP Archive this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990-06-14 with Business & Economics categories.
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.
The Anti Politics Machine In India
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Author : Vasudha Chhotray
language : en
Publisher: Anthem Press
Release Date : 2011
The Anti Politics Machine In India written by Vasudha Chhotray and has been published by Anthem Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Nature categories.
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.
The Anti Politics Machine
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Author : Julie Jenkins
language : en
Publisher: CRC Press
Release Date : 2017-07-05
The Anti Politics Machine written by Julie Jenkins and has been published by CRC Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-05 with Social Science categories.
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.
Anti Politics Machine In India
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Author : CHHOTRAY
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012-10-15
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Machine Made Tammany Hall And The Creation Of Modern American Politics
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Author : Terry Golway
language : en
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Release Date : 2014-03-03
Machine Made Tammany Hall And The Creation Of Modern American Politics written by Terry Golway and has been published by W. W. Norton & Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03-03 with History categories.
“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).
The Anti Politics Machine
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1992
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Expectations Of Modernity
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Author : James Ferguson
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 1999-10-01
Expectations Of Modernity written by James Ferguson and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-10-01 with Social Science categories.
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.
Anti Politics Machine
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Author : James Ferguson
language : en
Publisher: David Philip Publishers
Release Date : 1990-12-01
Anti Politics Machine written by James Ferguson and has been published by David Philip Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990-12-01 with Bureaucracy categories.
The Will To Improve
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Author : Tania Murray Li
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2007-05-16
The Will To Improve written by Tania Murray Li and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-05-16 with Social Science categories.
The Will to Improve is a remarkable account of development in action. Focusing on attempts to improve landscapes and livelihoods in Indonesia, Tania Murray Li carefully exposes the practices that enable experts to diagnose problems and devise interventions, and the agency of people whose conduct is targeted for reform. Deftly integrating theory, ethnography, and history, she illuminates the work of colonial officials and missionaries; specialists in agriculture, hygiene, and credit; and political activists with their own schemes for guiding villagers toward better ways of life. She examines donor-funded initiatives that seek to integrate conservation with development through the participation of communities, and a one-billion-dollar program designed by the World Bank to optimize the social capital of villagers, inculcate new habits of competition and choice, and remake society from the bottom up. Demonstrating that the “will to improve” has a long and troubled history, Li identifies enduring continuities from the colonial period to the present. She explores the tools experts have used to set the conditions for reform—tools that combine the reshaping of desires with applications of force. Attending in detail to the highlands of Sulawesi, she shows how a series of interventions entangled with one another and tracks their results, ranging from wealth to famine, from compliance to political mobilization, and from new solidarities to oppositional identities and violent attack. The Will to Improve is an engaging read—conceptually innovative, empirically rich, and alive with the actions and reflections of the targets of improvement, people with their own critical analyses of the problems that beset them.