Developmentality: An Ethnography of the World Bank-Uganda Partnership

by Sande Lie Jon Harald and Jon Harald Sande Lie

Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork within the World Bank and a Ugandan ministry, this book critically examines how the new aid architecture recasts aid relations as a partnership. While intended to alter an asymmetrical relationship by fostering greater recipient participation and ownership, this book demonstrates how donors still seek to retain control through other indirect and informal means. The concept of developmentality shows how the World...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1782388400
• ISBN13: 9781782388401
• Release Date: September 2015
• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"