Author : Lars Engberg-Pedersen
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 031305181X
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)
Book Synopsis Endangering Development by : Lars Engberg-Pedersen
Download or read book Endangering Development written by Lars Engberg-Pedersen and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2003-02-28 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The politics of international intervention into rural areas is the subject of this insightful study. Using concrete cases drawn from fieldwork in rural Burkina Faso, Engberg-Pedersen shows how nongovernmental organizations' activities with women's groups, natural resource management projects, decentralization policies, and rural democratization advocates must enter an arena of local struggle for resources and status. He maintains that activists often seriously contradict rural people's practices and understandings of particular issues and how they should be organized. Thus, while societal conflicts and institutional contradictions are inescapable features of rural development, development assistance agents and scholars of democratization and political change in Africa largely ignore them.