Practising Development: Social Science Perspectives

by Johan Pottier (Editor)

Overview

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 assessments of the success and failures found within actual responses to these calls. By combining academic and practical experience from anthropology, development and aid organizations the contributors examine the processes of intervention, the methods by which this intervention can be assessed, and explain the socio-economic and political worlds within which intervention and development evolve.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415089111
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	12/17/1992
Series:	European Inter-University Development Opportunity Study Group Series
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	240
Product dimensions:	5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)
Age Range:	18 Years

Table of Contents

Notes on contributors; Preface; Introduction: development in practice: assessing social science perspectives, Johan Pottier; 1 The role of ethnography in project appraisal, Johan Pottier; 2 Agencies and young people: runaways and young homeless in Wales, Susan Hutson and Mark Liddiard; 3 Anthropologists or anthropology? The Band Aid perspective on development projects, Bill Garber and Penny Jenden; 4 Anthropology and appraisal: the preparation of two IFAD pastoral development projects in Niger and Mali, David Seddon; 5 Development in Madura: an anthropological approach, Margaret Casey; 6 Project appraisals: the need for methodological guidelines, Geoff Griffith; 7 Anthropology in farming systems research: a Participant observer in Zambia, Philip Gatter; 8 Representing knowledge: the ‘new farmer’ in research fashions, James Fairhead; 9 ‘Eze-vu’—success through evaluation: lessons from a primary health-care project in North Yemen, Tim Morris; Index;

Editorial Reviews

` ... it will be a particularly useful resource to students who want a clearer sense of exactly what it is they might expect to do as social scientists in development ... the book merits a place on a range of teaching courses in anthropology, development studies and research methods.' - Development Policy Review

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