The Anti-Politics Machine
'Development', Depoliticization and Bureaucratic Power in Lesotho
Published on 14. June 1990
Book
Hardback
336 pages
978-0-521-37382-1 (ISBN)
Description
A case study of development in the Thaba-Tseka district of Lesotho during the period 1975 to 1984, which looks at the workings of the development industry in the country, and in particular at one development project.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 228 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 31 mm
Weight
620 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-521-37382-1 (9780521373821)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Content
Part 1 Introduction. Part 2 The development apparatus: conceptual apparatus - the constitution of the object of "development" - Lesotho as "less developed country"; institutional apparatus - the Thaba-Tseka development project. Part 3 The target population: the setting - aspects of economy and society in rural Lesotho; the bovine mystique - a study of power, property, and livestock in rural Lesotho. Part 4 The deployment of "development": livestock development; the decentralization debacle; crop development and some other programmes of the Thaba-Tseka project. Part 5 Instrument-effects of a development project: the anti-politics machine; epilogue - "What is to be done?"