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Anti-Politics Machine: Development, Depoliticization, and Bureaucratic Power in Lesotho
James Ferguson
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Paperback. Num Pages: 336 pages, 24 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HFML; GTF; JPH; KC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 150 x 17. Weight in Grams: 436.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
336
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Condition
New
Weight
443g
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816624379
SKU
V9780816624379
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