The Afterlives of International Development Interventions: A Site-Specific Ethnographic Approach.
Recent years have seen a growing interest in the long-term implications, resonance, and reverberation of international development interventions. Going beyond projects' official blueprints and stated objectives, scholars and development practitioners alike increasingly approach such interventions as...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Development Studies Vol. 57; no. 9; pp. 1511 - 1527 |
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Sep2021
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