How Development Projects Persist : Everyday Negotiations with Guatemalan NGOs /

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Erin Beck examines microfinance NGOs working with poor, rural women in Guatemala to show how these women creatively and strategically use the NGOs to their own benefit in ways that do not necessarily match the goals of the NGOs, demonstrating that development projects are often transformed and persi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Beck, Erin, 1982- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, 2017.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Fundacion Namaste Guatemaya.
Fraternidad de Presbiteriales Mayas (Guatemala)
Women in development.
Social conditions.
Non-governmental organizations.
Economic history.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > NGOs (Non-Governmental Organizations)
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
Femmes dans le developpement > Guatemala.
Organisations non gouvernementales > Guatemala.
Women in development > Guatemala.
Non-governmental organizations > Guatemala.
Guatemala.
Guatemala > Conditions economiques.
Guatemala > Economic conditions.
Guatemala > Social conditions.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Social engineering from above and below
  • Repackaging development in Guatemala
  • Namaste's bootstrap model
  • Women and workers responding to bootstrap development
  • The Fraternity's holistic model
  • The uneven practices and experiences of holistic development
  • The implications of socially constructed development
  • Appendix: Research methods and ethical dilemmas.

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