{"product_id":"9780745317991","title":"Cultivating Development: An Ethnography of Aid Policy and Practice","description":"\u003cp\u003eDevelopment agencies and researchers are preoccupied with policy; with exerting influence over policy, linking research to policy and with implementing policy around the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut what if development practice is not driven by policy? Suppose that the things that make for 'good policy' - policy that legitimises and mobilises political support - in reality make it impossible to implement?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy focusing in detail on the unfolding activities of a development project in western India over more than ten years, as it falls under different policy regimes, this book takes a close look at the relationship between policy and practice in development.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDavid Mosse shows how the actions of development workers are shaped by the exigencies of organisations and the need to maintain relationships rather than by policy; but also that development actors work hardest of all to maintain coherent representations of their actions as instances of authorised policy. Raising unfamiliar questions, Mosse provides a rare self-critical reflection on practice, while refusing to endorse current post-modern dismissal of development.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pluto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47018638868720,"sku":"9780745317991","price":105.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780745317991_p0.jpg?v=1763630658","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780745317991","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}