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Author Beck, Erin, 1982- author.

Title How development projects persist : everyday negotiations with Guatemalan NGOs / Erin Beck
Published Durham : Duke University Press, 2017
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Description 1 online resource (x, 266 pages) : illustrations
Contents 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
Summary 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 persist in unexpected ways
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 17, 2017)
Subject Fundacion Namaste Guatemaya.
Fraternidad de Presbiteriales Mayas (Guatemala)
SUBJECT Fraternidad de Presbiteriales Mayas (Guatemala) fast
Fundacion Namaste Guatemaya fast
Subject Non-governmental organizations -- Guatemala
Women in development -- Guatemala
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- NGOs (Non-Governmental Organizations)
Economic history
Non-governmental organizations
Social conditions
Women in development
SUBJECT Guatemala -- Social conditions
Guatemala -- Economic conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85057635
Subject Guatemala
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2016058225
ISBN 9780822372912
0822372916