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Practising Development: Social Science Perspectives by Johan Pottier

By Johan Pottier

Through the Nineteen Eighties there were calls, usually from improvement agencies of world reputation, for the incorporation of social technological know-how views into the layout and administration of sustainable improvement programmes. training improvement is the 1st assortment to supply first-hand severe tests of the good fortune and screw ups stumbled on inside of genuine responses to those calls. by means of combining educational and sensible event from anthropology, improvement and relief agencies the participants learn the methods of intervention, the tools during which this intervention could be assessed, and clarify the socio-economic and political worlds in which intervention and improvement evolve.

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Stavenhagen, R. Krahl (eds) Development Studies: Critique and Renewal, Leiden: Brill, pp. 71–94. Tripp, R. (1985) ‘Anthropology and on-farm research’, Human Organization 44 (2): 114–24. Weiss, C. ) The Use and Abuse of Social Sciences, London: Sage, pp. 214–35. 2 Agencies and young people Runaways and young homeless in Wales Susan Hutson and Mark Liddiard Homeless young people sleeping on friends’ floors, in old cars and night-shelters in the cities and the countryside of Wales, may seem a long way from farmers growing beans and herding cattle in Africa.

THE PUBLIC DEFINITION OF THE PROBLEM Anyone living in London in the 1990s must be familiar with the problem of homeless young people. Documentaries and reports about children, whether the theme be running, homelessness or abuse, have become part of the public consciousness. In this area media images are particularly important, as children are always newsworthy and it is a sensitive area where professionals and policy makers often take note of public opinion. Moreover, many of the agencies in the field depend on the collecting box for their funds.

Among these were the importance of sheep and goats to the Maasai economy and the orientation towards dairying with cattle, as opposed to beef production. Although available from the start, in a language understood by all team members, these and other ethnographic insights were ignored at the project formulation stage. If no subsequent action was taken to accommodate that information during the design stage, surely this time one could not have blamed the providers of sociological data. ) The lesson to draw is that project management is a complex political field—something to be investigated—and that it will not do The role of ethnography in project appraisal 23 to point an accusing finger at the team member who is drafted in late to ‘fine tune’ the package to on-site reality.

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