Ethnography of Ngo Practice in India - Utopias of Development

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

List of contents

Introduction: selling the Barefoot College
1 Strands of history
2 An award controversy
3 India is shining
4 Solar spectating: the witnessing of development success
5 Circuits of knowledge
6 Replication and its troubles
Conclusion: the frayed edges of the spectacle
References
Index

About the author

Stewart Allen was previously a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science

Summary

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 -- .

Product details

• Authors: Stewart Allen
• Assisted by: Alexander Smith (Editor)
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2018
• EAN: 9781784992996
• ISBN: 978-1-78499-299-6
• No. of pages: 192
• Series: New Ethnographies; New Ethnographies
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general)