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| james ferguson the anti politics machine: The Anti-politics Machine James Ferguson, 1994 Development, it is generally assumed, is good and necessary, and in its name the West has intervened, implementing all manner of projects in the impoverished regions of the world. When these projects fail, as they do with astonishing regularity, they nonetheless produce a host of regular and unacknowledged effects, including the expansion of bureaucratic state power and the translation of the political realities of poverty and powerlessness into technical problems awaiting solution by development agencies and experts. It is the political intelligibility of these effects, along with the process that produces them, that this book seeks to illuminate through a detailed case study of the workings of the development industry in one country, Lesotho, and in one development project. Using an anthropological approach grounded in the work of Foucault, James Ferguson analyzes the institutional framework within which such projects are crafted and the nature of development discourse, revealing how it is that, despite all the expertise that goes into formulating development projects, they nonetheless often demonstrate a startling ignorance of the historical and political realities of the locale they are intended to help. In a close examination of the attempted implementation of the Thaba-Tseka project in Lesotho, Ferguson shows how such a misguided approach plays out, how, in fact, the development apparatus in Lesotho acts as an anti-politics machine, everywhere whisking political realities out of sight and all the while performing, almost unnoticed, its own pre-eminently political operation of strengthening the state presence in the local region.James Ferguson is an associate professor of anthropology at the University of California at Irvine. |
| james ferguson the anti politics machine: The Anti-Politics Machine James Ferguson, 1990-06-14 Attributes Canadian withdrawal from the Thaba-Tseka rural development project largely to problems accompanying the expansion of state power (etatization). Includes an introductory literature survey on development planning and evaluation in general. |
| james ferguson the anti politics machine: The Anti-Politics Machine Julie Jenkins, 2017-07-05 James Ferguson's 1990 study The Anti-Politics Machine was a radical intervention in development studies that remains influential in the field today. It is also an excellent example of the way in which creative thinking can help shake up an idea, and show problems in a new light. Ferguson's interest was development strategies in the Third World - the interventions by which aid agencies, NGOs and individual countries try to raise poor areas or countries' economic and living standards. Embedded in the community in Lesotho (a small country in southern Africa), Ferguson noted that, time and time again, the same strategies were used by agencies and foreign powers, despite the fact that they had failed many times before. Seeking to analyse the implications of this discovery, Ferguson made a move that is often employed by creative thinkers: he stepped outside of the standard interpretative framework, and applied a novel way of interpreting the problem. In this case, Ferguson imported his framework and methodology from the French philosopher and historian Michel Foucault, whose theories of power dynamics enabled Ferguson to see the failed development strategies from an entirely new perspective. It is a simple but impactful move that helped revolutionise the discussion.--Page 5. |
| james ferguson the anti politics machine: The Anti-politics Machine in India Vasudha Chhotray, 2011 This book assesses the validity of 'anti-politics' critiques of development, first popularised by James Ferguson, in the peculiar context of India. It examines the extent to which it is possible to keep politics out of a highly technocratic state watershed development programme that also seeks to be participatory. |
| james ferguson the anti politics machine: The Anti-politics Machine "Development," Depoliticization, and Bureaucratic Power in Lesotho James Ferguson, Thaba Tseka Rural Development Program, 2017 |
| james ferguson the anti politics machine: Global Shadows James Ferguson, 2006-02-28 DIVA collection of Ferguson's essays that bring the question of Africa into the center of current debates on globalization, modernity, and emerging forms of world order./div |
| james ferguson the anti politics machine: Expectations of Modernity James Ferguson, 1999-10-01 Once lauded as the wave of the African future, Zambia's economic boom in the 1960s and early 1970s was fueled by the export of copper and other primary materials. Since the mid-1970s, however, the urban economy has rapidly deteriorated, leaving workers scrambling to get by. Expectations of Modernity explores the social and cultural responses to this prolonged period of sharp economic decline. Focusing on the experiences of mineworkers in the Copperbelt region, James Ferguson traces the failure of standard narratives of urbanization and social change to make sense of the Copperbelt's recent history. He instead develops alternative analytic tools appropriate for an ethnography of decline. Ferguson shows how the Zambian copper workers understand their own experience of social, cultural, and economic advance and decline. Ferguson's ethnographic study transports us into their lives—the dynamics of their relations with family and friends, as well as copper companies and government agencies. Theoretically sophisticated and vividly written, Expectations of Modernity will appeal not only to those interested in Africa today, but to anyone contemplating the illusory successes of today's globalizing economy. |
| james ferguson the anti politics machine: Give a Man a Fish James Ferguson, 2015-05-20 In Give a Man a Fish James Ferguson examines the rise of social welfare programs in southern Africa, in which states make cash payments to their low income citizens. More than thirty percent of South Africa's population receive such payments, even as pundits elsewhere proclaim the neoliberal death of the welfare state. These programs' successes at reducing poverty under conditions of mass unemployment, Ferguson argues, provide an opportunity for rethinking contemporary capitalism and for developing new forms of political mobilization. Interested in an emerging politics of distribution, Ferguson shows how new demands for direct income payments (including so-called basic income) require us to reexamine the relation between production and distribution, and to ask new questions about markets, livelihoods, labor, and the future of progressive politics. |
| james ferguson the anti politics machine: Encountering Development Arturo Escobar, 2012 Originally published: 1995. Paperback reissue, with a new preface by the author. |
| james ferguson the anti politics machine: Presence and Social Obligation James Ferguson, 2021-03 In precarious and tumultuous times, schemes of social support, including cash transfers, are increasingly indispensable. Yet the inadequacy of the nation-state frame of membership that such schemes depend on is becoming evermore evident, as non-citizens form a growing proportion of the populations that welfare states attempt to govern. In Presence and Social Obligation, James Ferguson argues that conceptual resources for solving this problem are closer to hand than we might think. Drawing on a rich anthropology of sharing, he argues that the obligation to share never depends only on membership, but also on presence: on being here. Presence and Social Obligation strives to demonstrate that such obligatory sharing based on presence can be observed in the way that marginalized urban populations access state services, however unequally, across the global South. Examples show that such sharing with non-nationals is not some sort of utopian proposal but part of the everyday life of the modern service-delivering state. Presence and Social Obligation is a critical yet refreshing approach to an ever-growing way of being together. |
| james ferguson the anti politics machine: Dreams for Lesotho John Aerni-Flessner, 2018-05-30 In Dreams for Lesotho: Independence, Foreign Assistance, and Development, John Aerni-Flessner studies the post-independence emergence of Lesotho as an example of the uneven ways in which people experienced development at the end of colonialism in Africa. The book posits that development became the language through which Basotho (the people of Lesotho) conceived of the dream of independence, both before and after the 1966 transfer of power. While many studies of development have focused on the perspectives of funding governments and agencies, Aerni-Flessner approaches development as an African-driven process in Lesotho. The book examines why both political leaders and ordinary people put their faith in development, even when projects regularly failed to alleviate poverty. He argues that the potential promise of development helped make independence real for Africans. The book utilizes government archives in four countries, but also relies heavily on newspapers, oral histories, and the archives of multilateral organizations like the World Bank. It will interest scholars of decolonization, development, empire, and African and South African history. |
| james ferguson the anti politics machine: The Will to Improve Tania Murray Li, 2007-05-16 The Will to Improve is a remarkable account of development in action. Focusing on attempts to improve landscapes and livelihoods in Indonesia, Tania Murray Li carefully exposes the practices that enable experts to diagnose problems and devise interventions, and the agency of people whose conduct is targeted for reform. Deftly integrating theory, ethnography, and history, she illuminates the work of colonial officials and missionaries; specialists in agriculture, hygiene, and credit; and political activists with their own schemes for guiding villagers toward better ways of life. She examines donor-funded initiatives that seek to integrate conservation with development through the participation of communities, and a one-billion-dollar program designed by the World Bank to optimize the social capital of villagers, inculcate new habits of competition and choice, and remake society from the bottom up. Demonstrating that the “will to improve” has a long and troubled history, Li identifies enduring continuities from the colonial period to the present. She explores the tools experts have used to set the conditions for reform—tools that combine the reshaping of desires with applications of force. Attending in detail to the highlands of Sulawesi, she shows how a series of interventions entangled with one another and tracks their results, ranging from wealth to famine, from compliance to political mobilization, and from new solidarities to oppositional identities and violent attack. The Will to Improve is an engaging read—conceptually innovative, empirically rich, and alive with the actions and reflections of the targets of improvement, people with their own critical analyses of the problems that beset them. |
| james ferguson the anti politics machine: International Development and the Social Sciences Frederick Cooper, Randall M. Packard, 1997 This superb collection assembles a number of stimulating and theoretically current contributions by outstanding scholars.—Angelique Haugerud, author of The Culture of Politics in Modern Kenya |
| james ferguson the anti politics machine: Will the Bolsheviks Maintain Power? Vladimir Ilʹich Lenin, 1922 |
| james ferguson the anti politics machine: Against Humanity Sam Dubal, 2018-02-13 Introduction : against humanity -- How violence became inhuman : the making of modern moral sensibilities -- Gorilla warfare : life in and beyond the bush -- Beyond reason : magic and science in the LRA -- Interlude : Re-turn and dis-integration -- Rebel kinship beyond humanity : love and belonging in the war -- Rebels and charity cases : politics, ethics, and the concept of humanity -- Conclusion : beyond humanity, or how do we heal? |
| james ferguson the anti politics machine: The Good Politician Nick Clarke, Will Jennings, Jonathan Moss, Gerry Stoker, 2018-04-26 Asks how and why anti-political sentiment has grown among British citizens over the last half-century. |
| james ferguson the anti politics machine: The Anti-Politics Machine in India Vasudha Chhotray, 2011-03-01 This book assesses the validity of ‘anti-politics’ critiques of development, first popularised by James Ferguson, in the peculiar context of India. It examines the new context provided by decentralization of state functioning where keeping politics out of development (development as the anti-politics machine) can no longer be taken for granted. The case of a highly technocratic state watershed development programme that also seeks to be participatory is used to illustrate the tensions between prescriptive development policy and a growing political democracy. |
| james ferguson the anti politics machine: The Origins of Ethnic Conflict in Africa Tsega Etefa, 2019-02-01 From Darfur to the Rwandan genocide, journalists, policymakers, and scholars have blamed armed conflicts in Africa on ancient hatreds or competition for resources. Here, Tsega Etefa compares three such cases—the Darfur conflict between Arabs and non-Arabs, the Gumuz and Oromo clashes in Western Oromia, and the Oromo-Pokomo conflict in the Tana Delta—in order to offer a fuller picture of how ethnic violence in Africa begins. Diverse communities in Sudan, Ethiopia, and Kenya alike have long histories of peacefully sharing resources, intermarrying, and resolving disputes. As he argues, ethnic conflicts are fundamentally political conflicts, driven by non-inclusive political systems, the monopolization of state resources, and the manipulation of ethnicity for political gain, coupled with the lack of democratic mechanisms for redressing grievances. |
| james ferguson the anti politics machine: Disciplining Democracy Rita Abrahamsen, 2000-12 Examines contemporary development theory and discourse and explores its relationship to processes of democratization in sub-Saharan Africa. Focuses on the emergence and implementation of the good governance discourse. Draws on examples from four countries to demonstrate the impact of structural adjustment on economic and social conditions and describes the activities of democracy movements opposed to adjustment programmes. Concludes that the good governance agenda has been largely unsuccessful in promoting stable multi-party democracies in Africa. |
| james ferguson the anti politics machine: In Service of the Republic VIJAY. SHAH KELKAR (AJAY. SHAH, VIJAY KELKAR AND AJAY.), Ajay Shah, 2023-04-15 As a $3-trillion economy, India is on her way to becoming an economic superpower. Between 1991 and 2011, the period of our best growth, there was also a substantial decline in the number of people below the poverty line. Since 2011, however, there has been a marked retreat in the high growth performance of the previous two decades.What happened to the promise? Where have we faltered? How do we change course? How do we overcome the ever-present dangers of the middle-income trap, and get rich before we grow old? And one question above all else: What do we need to do to make our tryst with destiny? As professional economists as well as former civil servants, Vijay Kelkar and Ajay Shah have spent most of their lives thinking about and working on these questions. The result: In Service of the Republic, a meticulously researched work that stands at the intersection of economics, political philosophy and public administration. This highly readable book lays out the art and the science of the policymaking that we need, from the high ideas to the gritty practicalities that go into building the Republic. |
| james ferguson the anti politics machine: Roads Penny Harvey, Hannah Knox, 2015-11-06 Roads matter to people. This claim is central to the work of Penny Harvey and Hannah Knox, who in this book use the example of highway building in South America to explore what large public infrastructural projects can tell us about contemporary state formation, social relations, and emerging political economies.Roads focuses on two main sites: the interoceanic highway currently under construction between Brazil and Peru, a major public/private collaboration that is being realized within new, internationally ratified regulatory standards; and a recently completed one-hundred-kilometer stretch of highway between Iquitos, the largest city in the Peruvian Amazon, and a small town called Nauta, one of the earliest colonial settlements in the Amazon. The Iquitos-Nauta highway is one of the most expensive roads per kilometer on the planet.Combining ethnographic and historical research, Harvey and Knox shed light on the work of engineers and scientists, bureaucrats and construction company officials. They describe how local populations anticipated each of the road projects, even getting deeply involved in questions of exact routing as worries arose that the road would benefit some more than others. Connectivity was a key recurring theme as people imagined the prosperity that will come by being connected to other parts of the country and with other parts of the world. Sweeping in scope and conceptually ambitious, Roads tells a story of global flows of money, goods, and people—and of attempts to stabilize inherently unstable physical and social environments. |
| james ferguson the anti politics machine: Good Government in the Tropics Judith Tendler, 1997 In Good Government in the Tropics, Judith Tendler questions widely prevailing views about why governments so often perform poorly and about what causes them to improve. Drawing on a set of four cases involving public bureaucracies at work under the direction of an innovative state government in Brazil, the book offers findings of significance to the current debates about organization of the public-sector workplace, public service delivery, decentralization, and the interaction between government and civil society. The case chapters represent four different sectors, each traditionally spoken for by its distinct experts, literatures, and public agnecies -- rural preventive health, small enterprise development, agricultural extension for small farmers, and employment-creating public works construction and drought relief. With findings that cut across these sectoral boundaries, the book raises questions about the policy advice proferred by the international donor community. It shifts the terms of the prevailing debate away from mistrust of government toward an understanding of the circumstances under which public servants become truly committed to their work and public service improves dramatically. The traditional focus on trying to eliminate 'rent-seeking' by reducing the state's role has made a contribution but lost much of its charisma. Theoreticians and practitioners alike are looking for new ideas and Tendler offers a quite intriguing set of them. The cases demonstrate surprising counter-intuitive results that will be of interest even to those with little substantive interest in the particular setting described. Theoretical novelty and elegant use of evidence combine to make this book a clear winner. -- Peter Evans, University of California at Berkeley |
| james ferguson the anti politics machine: State-Directed Development Atul Kohli, 2004-08-30 Why have some developing country states been more successful at facilitating industrialization than others? An answer to this question is developed by focusing both on patterns of state construction and intervention aimed at promoting industrialization. Four countries are analyzed in detail - South Korea, Brazil, India, and Nigeria - over the twentieth century. The states in these countries varied from cohesive-capitalist (mainly in Korea), through fragmented-multiclass (mainly in India), to neo-patrimonial (mainly in Nigeria). It is argued that cohesive-capitalist states have been most effective at promoting industrialization and neo-patrimonial states the least. The performance of fragmented-multiclass states falls somewhere in the middle. After explaining in detail as to why this should be so, the study traces the origins of these different state types historically, emphasizing the role of different types of colonialisms in the process of state construction in the developing world. |
| james ferguson the anti politics machine: Thinking Small Daniel Immerwahr, 2015-01-05 Winner of the Merle Curti Award in Intellectual History, Organization of American Historians Co-Winner of the Society for U.S. Intellectual History Book Award Thinking Small tells the story of how the United States sought to rescue the world from poverty through small-scale, community-based approaches. And it also sounds a warning: such strategies, now again in vogue, have been tried before, with often disastrous consequences. “Unfortunately, far from eliminating deprivation and attacking the social status quo, bottom-up community development projects often reinforced them...This is a history with real stakes. If that prior campaign’s record is as checkered as Thinking Small argues, then its intellectual descendants must do some serious rethinking... How might those in twenty-first-century development and anti-poverty work forge a better path? They can start by reading Thinking Small.” —Merlin Chowkwanyun, Boston Review “As the historian Daniel Immerwahr demonstrates brilliantly in Thinking Small, the history of development has seen constant experimentation with community-based and participatory approaches to economic and social improvement...Immerwahr’s account of these failures should give pause to those who insist that going small is always better than going big.” —Jamie Martin, The Nation |
| james ferguson the anti politics machine: Social Research after the Cultural Turn S. Roseneil, S. Frosh, 2012-01-12 This collection explores the contested meanings and diverse practices of social research in the context of contemporary theoretical debates in cultural and social theory, addressing fundamental questions facing those working in the social and human sciences today. |
| james ferguson the anti politics machine: Anthropological Locations Akhil Gupta, James Ferguson, 1997-08-28 A vitally important contribution to anthropology. . . . Most importantly, although the critique is sharply directed, the tone of the volume is constructive rather than destructive—or deconstructive.—Joan Vincent, Barnard College A rich, thought-provoking, and highly original collection. . . . The research presented is new and the perspectives original. This collection of essays casts significant new light on phenomena and practices which have long been central to anthropology, while at the same time introducing new substantive materials.—Don Brenneis, University of California, Santa Cruz |
| james ferguson the anti politics machine: Afrasian Transformations Ruth Achenbach, Jan Beek, John Njenga Karugia, Rirhandu Mageza-Barthel, Frank Schulze-Engler, 2020 African-Asian interactions contribute to the emergence of a decentred, multi-polar world in which different actors need to redefine themselves and their relations to each other. Afrasian Transformations explores these changes to map out several arenas where these transformations have already produced startling results: development politics, South-South cooperation, cultural memory, mobile lifeworlds and transcultural connectivity. The contributions in this volume neither celebrate these shifting dynamics as felicitous proof of a new age of South-South solidarity, nor do they debunk them as yet another instance of burgeoning geopolitical hegemony. Instead, they seek to come to terms with the ambivalences, contradictions and potential benefits entailed in these transformations -- that are also altering our understanding of (trans)area in an increasingly globalized world. Contributors include: Seifudein Adem, Nafeesah Allen, Hanna Getachew Amare, Tom De Bruyn, Casper Hendrik Claassen, Astrid Erll, John Njenga Karugia, Guive Khan-Mohammad, Vinay Lal, Pavan Kumar Malreddy, Jamie Monson, Diderot Nguepjouo, Satwinder Rehal, Ute Röschenthaler, Alexandra Samokhvalova, and Sophia Thubauville-- |
| james ferguson the anti politics machine: Murder as a Business Decision Gary E. Marché, 2002 In the second edition of Murder as a Business Decision, a new chapter is added that covers aspects of additional real world planned homicide investigations. The new material covers investigations related to FBI undercover operations Strawman in Kansas City. |
| james ferguson the anti politics machine: Hungochani Marc Epprecht, 2004 Challenging the stereotypes of African heterosexuality - from the precolonial era to the present. |
| james ferguson the anti politics machine: Powers of Freedom Nikolas Rose, 1999-05-13 Powers of Freedom, first published in 1999, offers a compelling approach to the analysis of political power which extends Foucault's hypotheses on governmentality in challenging ways. Nikolas Rose sets out the key characteristics of this approach to political power and analyses the government of conduct. He analyses the role of expertise, the politics of numbers, technologies of economic management and the political uses of space. He illuminates the relation of this approach to contemporary theories of 'risk society' and 'the sociology of governance'. He argues that freedom is not the opposite of government but one of its key inventions and most significant resources. He also seeks some rapprochement between analyses of government and the concerns of critical sociology, cultural studies and Marxism, to establish a basis for the critique of power and its exercise. The book will be of interest to students and scholars in political theory, sociology, social policy and cultural studies. |
| james ferguson the anti politics machine: Hydraulic City Nikhil Anand, 2017-03-02 In Hydraulic City Nikhil Anand explores the politics of Mumbai's water infrastructure to demonstrate how citizenship emerges through the continuous efforts to control, maintain, and manage the city's water. Through extensive ethnographic fieldwork in Mumbai's settlements, Anand found that Mumbai's water flows, not through a static collection of pipes and valves, but through a dynamic infrastructure built on the relations between residents, plumbers, politicians, engineers, and the 3,000 miles of pipe that bind them. In addition to distributing water, the public water network often reinforces social identities and the exclusion of marginalized groups, as only those actively recognized by city agencies receive legitimate water services. This form of recognition—what Anand calls hydraulic citizenship—is incremental, intermittent, and reversible. It provides residents an important access point through which they can make demands on the state for other public services such as sanitation and education. Tying the ways Mumbai's poorer residents are seen by the state to their historic, political, and material relations with water pipes, the book highlights the critical role infrastructures play in consolidating civic and social belonging in the city. |
| james ferguson the anti politics machine: Differentiating Development Soumhya Venkatesan, Thomas Yarrow, 2012-04-01 Over the last two decades, anthropological studies have highlighted the problems of ‘development’ as a discursive regime, arguing that such initiatives are paradoxically used to consolidate inequality and perpetuate poverty. This volume constitutes a timely intervention in anthropological debates about development, moving beyond the critical stance to focus on development as a mode of engagement that, like anthropology, attempts to understand, represent and work within a complex world. By setting out to elucidate both the similarities and differences between these epistemological endeavors, the book demonstrates how the ethnographic study of development challenges anthropology to rethink its own assumptions and methods. In particular, contributors focus on the important but often overlooked relationship between acting and understanding, in ways that speak to debates about the role of anthropologists and academics in the wider world. The case studies presented are from a diverse range of geographical and ethnographic contexts, from Melanesia to Africa and Latin America, and ethnographic research is combined with commentary and reflection from the foremost scholars in the field. |
| james ferguson the anti politics machine: Global Political Economy John Ravenhill, 2008 An authoritative introduction to Global Political Economy.The book covers all bases: contemporary theory, introductions to particular issue areas, and an extended debate on globalization that reflects a variety of perspectives. The book is accompanied by an Online Resource Centre. Student resources: Timeline Web links Glossary Instructor resources: Tables and figures from the book to download 2 in-depth case studies |
| james ferguson the anti politics machine: Cooking Data Cal (Crystal) Biruk, 2018-03-15 In Cooking Data Crystal Biruk offers an ethnographic account of research into the demographics of HIV and AIDS in Malawi to rethink the production of quantitative health data. While research practices are often understood within a clean/dirty binary, Biruk shows that data are never clean; rather, they are always “cooked” during their production and inevitably entangled with the lives of those who produce them. Examining how the relationships among fieldworkers, supervisors, respondents, and foreign demographers shape data, Biruk examines the ways in which units of information—such as survey questions and numbers written onto questionnaires by fieldworkers—acquire value as statistics that go on to shape national AIDS policy. Her approach illustrates how on-the-ground dynamics and research cultures mediate the production of global health statistics in ways that impact local economies and formulations of power and expertise. |
| james ferguson the anti politics machine: Tribal Politics in the Borderland of Egypt and Libya Thomas Hüsken, 2018-11-07 This book explores the tribal politics of the Awlad ‘Ali Bedouin in the borderland of Egypt and Libya. These tribal politics are part of heterarchy in which sovereignty is shared between tribes, states and other groups and, within this dynamic setting, the local politicians of the Awlad ‘Ali are essential producers of order beyond the framework of the nation state. Based on long-term fieldwork, this monograph is ideal for audiences interested in North African Politics, Libya, Egypt, and borderland studies. |
| james ferguson the anti politics machine: Transnational Law and Local Struggles David Szablowski, 2007-01-29 The global spread of transnational mining investment, which has been taking place since the 1990s, has led to often volatile conflicts with local communities. This book examines the regulation of these conflicts through national, transnational and local legal processes. In doing so, it examines how legal authority is being redistributed among public and private actors, as well as national and transnational actors, as a result of globalizing forces. The book presents a case study concerning the negotiation of land transfer and resettlement between a transnational mining enterprise and indigenous peasants in the Andes of Peru. The case study is used to explore the intensely local dynamics involved in negotiations between corporate and community representatives and the role played by legal ordering in these relations. In particular, the book examines the operation of a transnational legal regime managed by the World Bank to remedy the social and environmental impacts of projects which receive Bank assistance. The book explores the nature and character of the World Bank regime and the multiple consequences of this projection of transnational law into a local dispute. |
| james ferguson the anti politics machine: An Analysis of James Ferguson's The Anti-Politics Machine Julie Jenkins, 2017-07-05 The Anti-Politics Machine (1990) examines how international development projects are conceived, researched, and put into practice. It also looks at what these projects actually achieve. Ferguson criticizes the idea of externally-directed ‘development’ and argues that the process doesn’t take proper account of the daily realities of the communities it is intended to benefit. Instead, they often prioritize technical solutions for addressing poverty and ignoring its social and political dimensions, so the structures that these projects put in place often have unintended consequences. Ferguson suggests that until the process becomes more reflective, development projects will continue to fail. |
| james ferguson the anti politics machine: Village Gone Viral Marit Tolo Østebø, 2021-02-16 In 2001, Ethiopian Television aired a documentary about a small, rural village called Awra Amba, where women ploughed, men worked in the kitchen, and so-called harmful traditional practices did not exist. The documentary radically challenged prevailing images of Ethiopia as a gender-conservative and aid-dependent place, and Awra Amba became a symbol of gender equality and sustainable development in Ethiopia and beyond. Village Gone Viral uses the example of Awra Amba to consider the widespread circulation and use of modeling practices in an increasingly transnational and digital policy world. With a particular focus on traveling models—policy models that become viral through various vectors, ranging from NGOs and multilateral organizations to the Internet—Marit Tolo Østebø critically examines the hidden dimensions of models and model making. While a policy model may be presented as a best practice, one that can be scaled up and successfully applied to other places, the local impacts of the model paradigm are far more ambivalent—potentially increasing social inequalities, reinforcing social stratification, and concealing injustice. With this book, Østebø ultimately calls for a reflexive critical anthropology of the production, circulation, and use of models as instruments for social change. |
| james ferguson the anti politics machine: Development Discourse and Global History Aram Ziai, 2015-08-27 The manner in which people have been talking and writing about ‘development’ and the rules according to which they have done so have evolved over time. Development Discourse and Global History uses the archaeological and genealogical methods of Michel Foucault to trace the origins of development discourse back to late colonialism and notes the significant discontinuities that led to the establishment of a new discourse and its accompanying industry. This book goes on to describe the contestations, appropriations and transformations of the concept. It shows how some of the trends in development discourse since the crisis of the 1980s – the emphasis on participation and ownership, sustainable development and free markets – are incompatible with the original rules and thus lead to serious contradictions. The Eurocentric, authoritarian and depoliticizing elements in development discourse are uncovered, whilst still recognizing its progressive appropriations. The author concludes by analysing the old and new features of development discourse which can be found in the debate on Sustainable Development Goals and discussing the contribution of discourse analysis to development studies. This book is aimed at researchers and students in development studies, global history and discourse analysis as well as an interdisciplinary audience from international relations, political science, sociology, geography, anthropology, language and literary studies. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781315753782, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license. |
| james ferguson the anti politics machine: Anti-politics, Depoliticization, and Governance Paul Fawcett (Political scientist), Matthew V. Flinders, Colin Hay, Matthew Wood (Writer in political science), 2017 There is a mounting body of evidence pointing towards rising levels of public dissatisfaction with the formal political process. Depoliticization refers to a more discrete range of contemporary strategies that add to this growing trend towards anti-politics by either removing or displacing the potential for choice, collective agency, and deliberation. This book examines the relationship between these two trends as understood within the broader shift towards governance. It brings together a number of contributions from scholars who have a varied range of concerns but who nevertheless share a common interest in developing the concept of depoliticization through their engagement with a set of theoretical, conceptual, methodological, and empirical questions. This volume explores these questions from a variety of different perspectives and uses a number of different empirical examples and case studies from both within the nation state as well as from other regional, global, and multi-level arenas. In this context, this volume examines the potential and limits of depoliticization as a concept and its position and contribution in the nexus between the larger and more established literatures on governance and anti-politics. |
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In one sense, which Ferguson considers to be the unintended and unwritten real effect of development, the scheme did work. Development, the 'anti-politics machine' which defines itself in such a way as to mask the political, actually contained a deeply political end, the only end which was in fact achieved, the
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The anti-politics machine: 'Development', depoliticization and bureaucratic state power in Lesotho by J Ferguson Merle Lipton2 This is an anthropological study of the development or aid industry as reflected in the discourse employed by its leading practitioner, the World Bank. The book, based on a doctoral thesis for Harvard University ...
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The Anti-politics Machine in India Vasudha Chhotray,2011 This book assesses the validity of 'anti-politics' critiques of development, first popularised by James Ferguson, in the peculiar context of India.
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assesses the validity of anti politics critiques of development first popularised by James Ferguson in the peculiar context of India It examines the extent to which it is possible to keep politics out of a highly technocratic state watershed development
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the validity of anti politics critiques of development first popularised by James Ferguson in the peculiar context of India It examines the extent to which it is possible to keep politics out of a highly technocratic state watershed development
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"anti-politics machine". Ferguson (1990), opment specialists influence the ways in based on his study on Lesotho (Africa), which development is delivered, and the
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Development is proverbially the anti-politics machine (Ferguson 1990). Complex socio-economic problems are fatally simplified into bland formulaic technicalities. Well-intentioned development schemes routinely fail because they are ignorant of the political realities on the ground.
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politics machine can be dismantled by displacing the cognitive frames of the development planner from the centre stage and emphasising political practice during implementation.
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11 James Ferguson, ‘‘The Anti-Politics Machine,’’ pp. 251–77, 302–13 from The Anti- Politics Machine: ‘‘Development,’’ Depoliticization, and Bureaucratic Power in Lesotho. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1994.
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This post delves deep into the Ferguson anti-politics machine, exploring the interwoven strands of police brutality, economic disenfranchisement, and political disengagement that fueled the protests and continue to impact communities across the nation.
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effects of the development project itself. Ferguson's driving thesis is that devel-opment as intervention is constituted as an 'anti-politics machine', and that there are two interwoven effects: the expansion of bureaucratic state power, and the depoliticization of the state and of poverty. 'Development' transforms social
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capitalism, and to cultural politics. The fact that they are largely ignored shows that poverty research plays a role in depoliticizing what are in essence political problems. It is a part of …
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The Anti-Politics Machine James Ferguson,1990-06-14 Attributes Canadian withdrawal from the Thaba Tseka rural development project largely to problems accompanying the expansion of …
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James Ferguson famously sums up as the 'anti-politics machine'.4 Rendering technical transforms a problem into something that requires a technical solution. At first sight, rendering …
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the Culture of Politics, and the Imagined State Akhil Gupta Section II Planning and Development 243 10 Cities, People, and Language 247 James C. Scott 11 The Anti-Politics Machine 270 …
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works. James Ferguson (1990) describes the field of developmental organizations as an ‘anti-politics machine’ that sought to improve the lot of the poor. As Fergusson argues, this machine …
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the Culture of Politics, and the Imagined State Akhil Gupta Section II Planning and Development 243 10 Cities, People, and Language 247 James C. Scott 11 The Anti-Politics Machine 270 …
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Ferguson Anti Politics Machine James Ferguson The Anti-politics Machine James Ferguson,1994 Development, it is generally assumed, is good and necessary, and in its name the West has …
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The social-science debates about development in the 1990s changed all of this. Famous books such as James Ferguson’s (1994) Anti-Politics Machine, or Arturo Escobar’s (1995) …
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James Ferguson’s phrase–an “anti-politics machine”.15 In his classic study, Ferguson, a key postdevelopment critic, argued that aid discourse drew power from its claims to be technical …
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James Ferguson’s memorable metaphor of development as an Anti-Politics Machine that serves to entrench state power and depoliticize development continues to appeal to those cynical of …
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parallels the idea of a 'development industry' articulated by James Ferguson in The Anti-Politics Machine: 'Development', depoliticization, and bureaucratic power in Lesotho, Cambridge: …
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scientists: Timothy Mitchell, Tania Li, Akhil Gupta, and especially James Ferguson.11 These anthropological accounts have wielded their influence outside their field, as historians …
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to the period from the mid-1970s onwards when aid became an 'anti-politics machine' that worked to undermine national sovereignty. Examination of the democratic period in Lesotho from 1966 …
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The Anti-politics Machine James Ferguson,1994 Encountering Development Arturo Escobar,2012 Originally published 1995 Paperback reissue with a new preface by the author Give a Man a …
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