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In How Development Projects Persist Erin Beck examines microfinance
NGOs working in Guatemala and problematizes the accepted wisdom of
how NGOs function. Drawing on twenty months of ethnographic
fieldwork, she shows how development models and plans become
entangled in the relationships among local actors in ways that
alter what they are, how they are valued, and the conditions of
their persistence. Beck focuses on two NGOs that use drastically
different methods in working with poor rural women in Guatemala.
She highlights how each program's beneficiaries-diverse groups of
savvy women-exercise their agency by creatively appropriating,
resisting, and reinterpreting the lessons of the NGOs to match
their personal needs. Beck uses this dynamic-in which the goals of
the developers and women do not often overlap-to theorize
development projects as social interactions in which policymakers,
workers, and beneficiaries critically shape what happens on the
ground. This book displaces the notion that development projects
are top-down northern interventions into a passive global south by
offering a provocative account of how local conditions, ongoing
interactions, and even fundamental tensions inherent in development
work allow such projects to persist, but in new and unexpected
ways.
In How Development Projects Persist Erin Beck examines microfinance
NGOs working in Guatemala and problematizes the accepted wisdom of
how NGOs function. Drawing on twenty months of ethnographic
fieldwork, she shows how development models and plans become
entangled in the relationships among local actors in ways that
alter what they are, how they are valued, and the conditions of
their persistence. Beck focuses on two NGOs that use drastically
different methods in working with poor rural women in Guatemala.
She highlights how each program's beneficiaries-diverse groups of
savvy women-exercise their agency by creatively appropriating,
resisting, and reinterpreting the lessons of the NGOs to match
their personal needs. Beck uses this dynamic-in which the goals of
the developers and women do not often overlap-to theorize
development projects as social interactions in which policymakers,
workers, and beneficiaries critically shape what happens on the
ground. This book displaces the notion that development projects
are top-down northern interventions into a passive global south by
offering a provocative account of how local conditions, ongoing
interactions, and even fundamental tensions inherent in development
work allow such projects to persist, but in new and unexpected
ways.
Talking Walls and Cigarettes is a collection of seven dark short
stories that deals with both real life monsters and those that
dwell within us. A bartender still grieving the tragic death of her
brother, shunning from her family, and the whispers in the street
is visited by a man who appears out of thin air to offer her a way
out of her own personal hell in The Salesman. A poor family is
cursed by a mysterious old man in the woods and the children are at
risk for falling victim to their parent's unspeakable acts in
Porcelain. The title story follows a man as he is tormented by
demons in his own mind. In Homecoming, can a young woman find what
she's looking for years after her father's abduction by
other-worldly beings?
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