Beck Erin Beck

How Development Projects Persist (eBook, PDF)

Everyday Negotiations with Guatemalan NGOs

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Produktbeschreibung

In How Development Projects Persist Erin Beck examines microfinance NGOs working in Guatemala and problematizes the accepted wisdom of how NGOs function. Drawing on twenty months of ethnographic fieldwork, she shows how development models and plans become entangled in the relationships among local actors in ways that alter what they are, how they are valued, and the conditions of their persistence. Beck focuses on two NGOs that use drastically different methods in working with poor rural women in Guatemala. She highlights how each program's beneficiaries-diverse groups of savvy women-exercise their agency by creatively appropriating, resisting, and reinterpreting the lessons of the NGOs to match their personal needs. Beck uses this dynamic-in which the goals of the developers and women do not often overlap-to theorize development projects as social interactions in which policymakers, workers, and beneficiaries critically shape what happens on the ground. This book displaces the notion that development projects are top-down northern interventions into a passive global south by offering a provocative account of how local conditions, ongoing interactions, and even fundamental tensions inherent in development work allow such projects to persist, but in new and unexpected ways.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Mai 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822372912
• Artikelnr.: 54675349

Autorenporträt

Erin Beck

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  vii
1. Social Engineering from Above and Below  1
2. Repackaging Development in Guatemala  29
3. Namaste's Bootstrap Model  64
4. Women and Workers Responding to Bootstrap Development  90
5. The Fraternity's Holistic Model  134
6. The Uneven Practices and Experiences of Holistic Development  162
7. The Implications of Socially Constructed Development  208
Appendix. Research Methods and Ethical Dilemmas  225
Notes  233
References  239
Index  259