| Description |
1 online resource (91 pages) |
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The Macat Library |
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Macat library.
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| Contents |
Ways in to the text -- Section 1: Influences. Module 1. The author and the historical context ; Module 2. Academic context ; Module 3. The problem ; Module 4. The author's contribution -- Section 2: Ideas. Module 5. Main ideas ; Module 6. Secondary ideas ; Module 7. Achievement ; Module 8. Place in the author's work -- Section 3: Impact. Module 9. The first responses ; Module 10. The evolving debate ; Module 11. Impact and influence today ; Module 12. Where next? |
| Summary |
"James Ferguson's 1990 study The Anti-Politics Machine was a radical intervention in development studies that remains influential in the field today. It is also an excellent example of the way in which creative thinking can help shake up an idea, and show problems in a new light. Ferguson's interest was development strategies in the Third World - the interventions by which aid agencies, NGOs and individual countries try to raise poor areas or countries' economic and living standards. Embedded in the community in Lesotho (a small country in southern Africa), Ferguson noted that, time and time again, the same strategies were used by agencies and foreign powers, despite the fact that they had failed many times before. Seeking to analyse the implications of this discovery, Ferguson made a move that is often employed by creative thinkers: he stepped outside of the standard interpretative framework, and applied a novel way of interpreting the problem. In this case, Ferguson imported his framework and methodology from the French philosopher and historian Michel Foucault, whose theories of power dynamics enabled Ferguson to see the failed development strategies from an entirely new perspective. It is a simple but impactful move that helped revolutionise the discussion."--Page 5 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 88-91) |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from PDF of title page (viewed July 1, 2020) |
| Subject |
Ferguson, James, 1959- Anti-politics machine
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Thaba Tseka Rural Development Program.
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Thaba Tseka Rural Development Program |
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Rural development projects -- Lesotho -- Case studies
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Human Geography.
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Rural development projects
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Economic history
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Economic development
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Ethnology
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Human geography
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Social change
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Lesotho -- Economic conditions -- 1966-
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Lesotho
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| Genre/Form |
Case studies
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781912128303 |
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1912128306 |
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9781351351140 |
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1351351141 |
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