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NGOs and lifeworlds in Africa : transdisciplinary perspectives /

"Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have become ubiquitous in the development sector in Africa and attracting more academic attention. However, the fact that NGOs are an integral part of the everyday lives of men and women on the continent has been overlooked thus far. In Africa, NGOs are no...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Kalfelis, Melina C. (Editor ), Knodel, Kathrin (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Berghahn Books, 2021.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Foreword. NGOs and Lifeworlds in Africa / Aram Ziai
  • Introduction. The Lifeworlds and Trajectories of NGOs in Africa / Melina C. Kalfelis and Kathrin Knodel
  • An Association for Emerging Technologies and the Bases of Its Longevity: The Example of Yam Pukri in Burkina Faso / Sylvestre Ouédraogo
  • 'I Will Not Tell Anyone Until You Have Left': The Ending of a Development Relationship Remembered / Karen Lauterbach
  • Becoming an Expert and Negotiating Development: A Development Studies Programme in Germany / Ulrike Schultz
  • Alternatives to Consultancy and NGOing: Developing Anthropological Team Research in West Africa / Sten Hagberg
  • Career Trajectories of Tanzanian Aid Workers: Structural Inequalities and New Management Practices in Public Foreign Aid / Molly Sundberg
  • The Contribution of National NGOs to Development in Burkina Faso: Review and Prospects / Alain J. Sissao
  • Artisanal Mining
  • a Necessary Evil: Narratives Legitimating Large-Scale Mining as a Pathway to Development / Bettina Engels
  • The Price of Getting Donor Money: Gift Exchange in Aid Relations and the Depoliticization of NGOs / Beata Paragi
  • Negotiating Tightropes: A Historical Appraisal of NGOs and their Adaptability in Nigeria's Changing Political Space / Abimbola O. Adesoji
  • From Development State to Non-State Development: Counterpart Careers, West German Aid and Asymmetrical Interdependence in Late Socialist Tanzania / Eric Burton
  • Civil Society and the Challenge of Consolidating Democracy in Togo / Kokou Folly Lolowou Hetcheli
  • The Custodians of Development Memory in Morocco: When Development Projects Create New Forms of Leadership for Policy-Making / Matthieu Brun
  • On the Advantages of 'Intentional Amnesia': Some Preliminary Notes on a Cultural History of NGOs in Burkina Faso / Hans P. Hahn
  • Afterword. Ad Hoc NGOs, Structural Failure and the Politics of Silence: Stories about Development from a Village in Togo / Hubertus Büschel.