Cultivating Development: An Ethnography Of Aid Policy And Practice (anthropology, Culture And Society)
by David Mosse /
2005 / English / PDF
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Development agencies and researchers are preoccupied with policy;
with exerting influence over policy, linking research to policy and
with implementing policy around the world.
Development agencies and researchers are preoccupied with policy;
with exerting influence over policy, linking research to policy and
with implementing policy around the world.
But what if development practice is not driven by policy? Suppose
that the things that make for 'good policy' - policy that
legitimises and mobilises political support - in reality make it
impossible to implement?
But what if development practice is not driven by policy? Suppose
that the things that make for 'good policy' - policy that
legitimises and mobilises political support - in reality make it
impossible to implement?
By focusing in detail on the unfolding activities of a
development project in western India over more than ten years, as
it falls under different policy regimes, this book takes a close
look at the relationship between policy and practice in
development.
By focusing in detail on the unfolding activities of a
development project in western India over more than ten years, as
it falls under different policy regimes, this book takes a close
look at the relationship between policy and practice in
development.
David Mosse shows how the actions of development workers are
shaped by the exigencies of organisations and the need to
maintain relationships rather than by policy; but also that
development actors work hardest of all to maintain coherent
representations of their actions as instances of authorised
policy. Raising unfamiliar questions, Mosse provides a rare
self-critical reflection on practice, while refusing to endorse
current post-modern dismissal of development.
David Mosse shows how the actions of development workers are
shaped by the exigencies of organisations and the need to
maintain relationships rather than by policy; but also that
development actors work hardest of all to maintain coherent
representations of their actions as instances of authorised
policy. Raising unfamiliar questions, Mosse provides a rare
self-critical reflection on practice, while refusing to endorse
current post-modern dismissal of development.
