Discourses of development : the view from anthropology / R.D. Grillo -- Webs of power and the construction of environmental policy problems : forest loss in Guinea / James Fairhead and Melissa Leach -- The silent traditions of developing cooks / Emma Crewe -- The donors' discourse : official social development knowledge in the 1980's / Alan Rew -- Watching the developers : a partial ethnography / Georgia Kaufmann -- Mixed messages : contested 'development' and the 'plantation rehabilitation project' / Katy Gardner -- Gender politics, development and women's agency in Rajasthan / Maya Unnithan and Kavita Srivastava -- Three critical issues in community health development projects in Kenya / David O. Nyamwaya -- Towards an ethnography of participatory appraisal and research / Johan Pottier -- Alternative vocabularies of development? 'Community' and 'participation' in development discourse in Sri Lanka / Michael D. Woost -- The ideology and politics of community participation : tank irrigation development in colonial and contemporary Tamil Nadu /David Mosse
Summary
The authors of this text raise provocative questions about the relationship of politics, power, ideology and rhetoric to the institutional practice of development
