Author Description

'development Management' Is An Idea That Blends The Seemingly Innocuous Claims Of Managerialism With Notions Of Modernity And Utopian Ideals Of 'third World' Progress. This Book Views Both Phenomena As Problematic And Modernizing Interventions. In Doing So, It Overturns And Reclaims Such Ideas As Participation, Community, Governance, Ngos, And Civil Society. Introduction: The New Development Management -- 2 The Rise Of The Global Managers -- 3 Nongovernmentalism And The Reorganization Of Public Action -- 4 Arrive Bearing Gifts...: Postcolonial Insights For Development Management -- 5 Managerialism And Ngo Advocacy: Handloom Weavers In India -- 6 International Development And The New Public Management -- 7 Participatory Management As Colonial Administration -- 8 Borders In An (in)visible World: Colonizing The Divergent And Privileging The New World Order -- 9 The Managerialization Of Development, The Banalization Of Its Promise And The Disavowal Of Critique As A Modernist Illusion -- 10 Real-izing Development: Reports, Realities And The Self In Development Ngos. Edited By Sadhvi Dar & Bill Cooke. Description Based Upon Print Version Of Record. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 204-230) And Index. Also Published In Print. English