The New Development Management: Critiquing the Dual Modernization

by Sadhvi Dar and Bill Cooke

'Development management' is an idea that blends the seemingly innocuous claims of managerialism with notions of modernity and utopian ideals of 'third world' progress. This book views both phenomena as problematic and modernizing interventions. In doing so, it overturns and reclaims such ideas as participation, community, governance, NGOs, and civil society. The contributors argue that the practices of development are often threaded together by the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1842779222
• ISBN13: 9781842779224
• Release Date: February 2008
• Publisher: Zed Books
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"