Practising development : social science perspectives

Practising development : social science perspectives / edited by Johan Pottier.

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 as...

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Other Authors: Pottier, Johan
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 1993.
Subjects:
Applied anthropology.
Social sciences > Methodology.
Community development > Case studies.
Economic development projects > Case studies.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > City Planning & Urban Development.
Applied anthropology
Community development
Economic development projects
Social sciences > Methodology
Angewandte Anthropologie
Aufsatzsammlung
Entwicklungsprojekt
Politikberatung
Sozialwissenschaften
Culturele antropologie.
Wetenschappelijke technieken.
Electronic books.
Case studies
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : development in practice : assessing social science perspectives ; The role of ethnography in project appraisal / Johan Pottier
  • Agencies and young people : runaways and young homeless in Wales / Susan Hutson and Mark Liddiard
  • Anthropologists or anthropology? : the Band Aid perspective on developmental projects / Bill Garber and Penny Jenden
  • Anthropology and appraisal : the preparation of two IFAD pastoral developmental projects in Niger and Mali / David Seddon
  • Development in Madura : an anthropological approach / Margaret Casey
  • Project appraisals : the need for methodological guidelines / Geoff Griffith
  • Anthropology in farming systems research : a participant observer in Zambia / Philip Gatter
  • Representing knowledge : the 'new farmer' in research fashions / James Fairhead.
  • 'Eze-vu' : success through evaluation : lessons from a primary health-care project in North Yemen / Tim Morris.

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