Practising Development
Social Science Perspectives
Published on 17. December 1992
Book
Paperback/Softback
240 pages
978-0-415-08911-1 (ISBN)
Description
Throughout the 1980s there have been calls, often from development organizations of global repute, for the incorporation of social science perspectives into the design and management of sustainable development programmes. Practising Development is the first collection to offer first-hand critical assessments of the success and failures found within actual responses to these calls. By combining academic and practical experience from anthropology, development and aid organizations the contributors examine the processes of intervention, the methods by which this intervention can be assessed, and explain the socio-economic and political worlds within which intervention and development evolve.
Reviews / Votes
` ... it will be a particularly useful resource to students who want a clearer sense of exactly what it is they might expect to do as social scientists in development ... the book merits a place on a range of teaching courses in anthropology, development studies and research methods.' - Development Policy ReviewMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
339 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-415-08911-1 (9780415089111)
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Person
Johan Pottier
Content
Notes on contributors; Preface; Introduction: development in practice: assessing social science perspectives, Johan Pottier; 1 The role of ethnography in project appraisal, Johan Pottier; 2 Agencies and young people: runaways and young homeless in Wales, Susan Hutson and Mark Liddiard; 3 Anthropologists or anthropology? The Band Aid perspective on development projects, Bill Garber and Penny Jenden; 4 Anthropology and appraisal: the preparation of two IFAD pastoral development projects in Niger and Mali, David Seddon; 5 Development in Madura: an anthropological approach, Margaret Casey; 6 Project appraisals: the need for methodological guidelines, Geoff Griffith; 7 Anthropology in farming systems research: a Participant observer in Zambia, Philip Gatter; 8 Representing knowledge: the 'new farmer' in research fashions, James Fairhead; 9 'Eze-vu'-success through evaluation: lessons from a primary health-care project in North Yemen, Tim Morris; Index;