Anti Politics Machine
Download Anti Politics Machine full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online free Anti Politics Machine ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!
Author | : James Ferguson |
Publisher | : CUP Archive |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 1990-06-14 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780521373821 |
Attributes Canadian withdrawal from the Thaba-Tseka rural development project largely to problems accompanying the expansion of state power ("etatization"). Includes an introductory literature survey on development planning and evaluation in general.
Author | : Vasudha Chhotray |
Publisher | : Anthem Press |
Total Pages | : 282 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 0857287672 |
This book assesses the validity of 'anti-politics' critiques of development, first popularised by James Ferguson, in the peculiar context of India. It examines the extent to which it is possible to keep politics out of a highly technocratic state watershed development programme that also seeks to be participatory.
Author | : Terry Golway |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 511 |
Release | : 2014-03-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0871407922 |
“Golway’s revisionist take is a useful reminder of the unmatched ingenuity of American politics.”—Wall Street Journal History casts Tammany Hall as shorthand for the worst of urban politics: graft and patronage personified by notoriously crooked characters. In his groundbreaking work Machine Made, journalist and historian Terry Golway dismantles these stereotypes, focusing on the many benefits of machine politics for marginalized immigrants. As thousands sought refuge from Ireland’s potato famine, the very question of who would be included under the protection of American democracy was at stake. Tammany’s transactional politics were at the heart of crucial social reforms—such as child labor laws, workers’ compensation, and minimum wages— and Golway demonstrates that American political history cannot be understood without Tammany’s profound contribution. Culminating in FDR’s New Deal, Machine Made reveals how Tammany Hall “changed the role of government—for the better to millions of disenfranchised recent American arrivals” (New York Observer).
Author | : Julie Jenkins |
Publisher | : CRC Press |
Total Pages | : 114 |
Release | : 2017-07-05 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1351352938 |
The Anti-Politics Machine (1990) examines how international development projects are conceived, researched, and put into practice. It also looks at what these projects actually achieve. Ferguson criticizes the idea of externally-directed ‘development’ and argues that the process doesn’t take proper account of the daily realities of the communities it is intended to benefit. Instead, they often prioritize technical solutions for addressing poverty and ignoring its social and political dimensions, so the structures that these projects put in place often have unintended consequences. Ferguson suggests that until the process becomes more reflective, development projects will continue to fail.
Author | : John Aerni-Flessner |
Publisher | : University of Notre Dame Pess |
Total Pages | : 270 |
Release | : 2018-05-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 026810364X |
In Dreams for Lesotho: Independence, Foreign Assistance, and Development, John Aerni-Flessner studies the post-independence emergence of Lesotho as an example of the uneven ways in which people experienced development at the end of colonialism in Africa. The book posits that development became the language through which Basotho (the people of Lesotho) conceived of the dream of independence, both before and after the 1966 transfer of power. While many studies of development have focused on the perspectives of funding governments and agencies, Aerni-Flessner approaches development as an African-driven process in Lesotho. The book examines why both political leaders and ordinary people put their faith in development, even when projects regularly failed to alleviate poverty. He argues that the potential promise of development helped make independence real for Africans. The book utilizes government archives in four countries, but also relies heavily on newspapers, oral histories, and the archives of multilateral organizations like the World Bank. It will interest scholars of decolonization, development, empire, and African and South African history.
Author | : Nick Clarke |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 327 |
Release | : 2018-04-26 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1316516210 |
Asks how and why anti-political sentiment has grown among British citizens over the last half-century.
Author | : Alison Stone |
Publisher | : Polity |
Total Pages | : 249 |
Release | : 2007-12-17 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0745638821 |
This is the first book to offer a systematic account of feminist philosophy as a distinctive field of philosophy. The book introduces key issues and debates in feminist philosophy including: the nature of sex, gender, and the body; the relation between gender, sexuality, and sexual difference; whether there is anything that all women have in common; and the nature of birth and its centrality to human existence. An Introduction to Feminist Philosophy shows how feminist thinking on these and related topics has developed since the 1960s. The book also explains how feminist philosophy relates to the many forms of feminist politics. The book provides clear, succinct and readable accounts of key feminist thinkers including de Beauvoir, Butler, Gilligan, Irigaray, and MacKinnon. The book also introduces other thinkers who have influenced feminist philosophy including Arendt, Foucault, Freud, and Lacan. Accessible in approach, this book is ideal for students and researchers interested in feminist philosophy, feminist theory, women's studies, and political theory. It will also appeal to the general reader.
Author | : Mark Twain |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 380 |
Release | : 1904 |
Genre | : City and town life |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Arturo Escobar |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0691150451 |
Originally published: 1995. Paperback reissue, with a new preface by the author.
Author | : James Ferguson |
Publisher | : U of Minnesota Press |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780816624379 |
Development, it is generally assumed, is good and necessary, and in its name the West has intervened, implementing all manner of projects in the impoverished regions of the world. When these projects fail, as they do with astonishing regularity, they nonetheless produce a host of regular and unacknowledged effects, including the expansion of bureaucratic state power and the translation of the political realities of poverty and powerlessness into "technical" problems awaiting solution by "development" agencies and experts. It is the political intelligibility of these effects, along with the process that produces them, that this book seeks to illuminate through a detailed case study of the workings of the "development" industry in one country, Lesotho, and in one "development" project. Using an anthropological approach grounded in the work of Foucault, James Ferguson analyzes the institutional framework within which such projects are crafted and the nature of "development discourse," revealing how it is that, despite all the "expertise" that goes into formulating development projects, they nonetheless often demonstrate a startling ignorance of the historical and political realities of the locale they are intended to help. In a close examination of the attempted implementation of the Thaba-Tseka project in Lesotho, Ferguson shows how such a misguided approach plays out, how, in fact, the "development" apparatus in Lesotho acts as an "anti-politics machine," everywhere whisking political realities out of sight and all the while performing, almost unnoticed, its own pre-eminently political operation of strengthening the state presence in the local region.James Ferguson is an associate professor of anthropology at the University of California at Irvine.