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Author Allen, Stewart, author.

Title An ethnography of NGO practice in India : utopias of development / Stewart Allen
Published Manchester : Manchester University Press, [2018]
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Description 1 online resource
Series New ethnographies
New ethnographies.
Contents Introduction: Selling the Barefoot College -- Strands of history -- An award controversy -- India is shining -- Solar spectating: the witnessing of development success -- Circuits of knowledge -- Replication and its troubles -- Conclusion: The frayed edges of the spectacle
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"--Electronic resource home page, viewed March 23, 2020
Analysis Barefoot College
Bunker Roy
Development
Heterotopia
NGO
Solar
Spectacle
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-172) and index
Subject Roy, Bunker, 1945-
Barefoot College.
SUBJECT Barefoot College fast
Subject Non-governmental organizations -- India -- Rajasthan
Non-governmental organizations -- India
Electronic books.
e-books.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Human Services.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
Non-governmental organizations
India
India -- Rajasthan
Genre/Form Ethnographies
Ethnographies.
Études ethnographiques.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781526127549
1526127547
9781526127556
1526127555