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The Anti-Politics Machine

Paperback • 1994 • English

The Anti-Politics Machine

By James Ferguson

4 Ratings • 4.8 of 5

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About the book

Development, it is generally assumed, is good and necessary, and in its name the West has intervened, implementing all manner of projects, in the impoverished regions of the world. When these projects fail, as they do with astonishing regularity, they nonetheless produce a host of regular and unacknowledged effects, including the expansion of bureaucratic state power and the translation of the political realities of poverty and powerlessness into "technical" problems awaiting solution by "develo...Show more

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ISBN

9780816624379

Publisher

University of Minnesota Press

Published year

1994

Language

English

Original title

The Anti-Politics Machine

Format

Paperback

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4 Ratings • 4.8 of 5

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