Description
About the Author
James Ferguson is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Irvine, and the author of The Anti-Politics Machine: "Development," Depoliticization, and Bureaucratic Power in Lesotho (1990). He is also coeditor, with Akhil Gupta, of Anthropological Locations: Boundaries and Grounds of a Field Science (California, 1997) and Culture, Power, Place: Explorations in Critical Anthropology (1997).
Reviews
"Ferguson is an astute analyst of ideologies of development and the misunderstandings they can generate." * Foreign Affairs *
"Ferguson presents a set of stimulating and important theoretical ideas." * American Ethnologust *
"[A] remarkable, deeply satisfying book." * Journal of Asian and African Studies *
"[Ferguson] has . . . exposed the need for a fresh set of intellectual resources to protect new generations from another set of false promises of development." * Canadian Journal of Sociology *
"Ferguson stands as a strong voice against the modernization paradigm." * On Politics: Journal of the University of Victoria Undergraduates of Political Science *
Book Information
ISBN 9780520217027
Author James Ferguson
Format Paperback
Page Count 343
Imprint University of California Press
Publisher University of California Press
Weight(grams) 544g
Dimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 25mm