A Village and Its NGOs

Co-Constructing Ngo Presence in Rural Malawi
Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-90-04-51351-8
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 45, 170 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 315 g

Reihe: African Social Studies Series

In rural Northern Malawi, villagers co-construct meanings for NGOs’ projects and resources. NGOs and their staff are invoked within, yet simultaneously influence, intra-community debates. This book explores NGO presence through detailing relationships, personhoods and social changes within a rural community. It argues that NGOs’ projects have less impact on many Malawians’ lives than the ways their presence encourages villagers to re-image development and renegotiate intra-community obligations and entitlements. The book examines moral economies and discourses of development by detailing how development narratives are built around the symbols development actors emit. It also investigates the intra-village social lives of development brokers.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mcnamara, Thomas

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Philosophische Anthropologie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Entwicklungsstudien
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Entwicklungspolitik, Nord-Süd Beziehungen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Nichtregierungsorganisation (NGOs)

Über Autor(innen)

Thomas McNamara, Ph.D. (2016), University of Melbourne, is a lecturer at La Trobe University, and an FNRS researcher at the University of Liege. His research explores how Global South economies are shaped by relationships and norms relating to ‘development’.