Anti-Politics Machine Development, Depoliticization, and Bureaucratic Power in Lesotho

Name: Anti-Politics Machine Development, Depoliticization, and Bureaucratic Power in Lesotho
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ISBN: 9780816624379

ISBN-10: 0816624372

ISBN-13: 9780816624379

Edition: 1994 (Reprint)

Authors: James Ferguson

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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…

Book details

List price: $25.50
Copyright year: 1994
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Publication date: 2/1/1994
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 5.85" wide x 9.00" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English