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A village and its NGOs : co-constructing NGO presence in rural Malawi / Thomas McNamara.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: African Social Studies SerPublisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2022]Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9004513523
  • 9789004513525
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Village and its NGOs.DDC classification:
  • 338.96897 23/eng/20220413
LOC classification:
  • HC935 .M36 2022
Online resources:
Contents:
Dependent development in Vsawa and Malawi -- Moral economies of patronage, inequality and development -- The schooled and the educated in Vsawa's moral economy -- Village headmen and the dyad between development and traditional rule -- NGO staff, culturalist projects and the developer-beneficiary dichotomy -- Volunteers' labour and the creation of stable development discourse.
Summary: "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"-- Provided by publisher
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Dependent development in Vsawa and Malawi -- Moral economies of patronage, inequality and development -- The schooled and the educated in Vsawa's moral economy -- Village headmen and the dyad between development and traditional rule -- NGO staff, culturalist projects and the developer-beneficiary dichotomy -- Volunteers' labour and the creation of stable development discourse.

"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"-- Provided by publisher

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