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The paternalism of partnership: a postcolonial reading of identity in development aid

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: 2005 Zed Books Ltd. LondonDescription: xii, 212 pISBN:
  • 9781842774151
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 338.91 B2P2
Summary: The development industry has been criticised recently from very diverse quarters. This book is a nuanced and original investigation of Northern donor agency personnel as they deliver aid in Tanzania. The author explores in particular how donor identities are manifested in the practices of development aid, and how calls for equal partnership between North and South are often very different in practice. She demonstrates the conflicts and tensions in the development aid process. These reflect both the longstanding critique of the eurocentric nature of development, and discourse that still assumes images of the superior, initiating, efficient HdonorH as opposed to the inadequate, passive, unreliable partner or recipient.(http://www.zedbooks.co.uk/book.asp?bookdetail=3556)
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The development industry has been criticised recently from very diverse quarters. This book is a nuanced and original investigation of Northern donor agency personnel as they deliver aid in Tanzania. The author explores in particular how donor identities are manifested in the practices of development aid, and how calls for equal partnership between North and South are often very different in practice. She demonstrates the conflicts and tensions in the development aid process. These reflect both the longstanding critique of the eurocentric nature of development, and discourse that still assumes images of the superior, initiating, efficient HdonorH as opposed to the inadequate, passive, unreliable partner or recipient.(http://www.zedbooks.co.uk/book.asp?bookdetail=3556)

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