1st Edition

Technical Knowledge and Development Observing Aid Projects and Processes

By Thomas Grammig Copyright 2002
    254 Pages
    by Routledge

    256 Pages
    by Routledge

    Development and aid projects often fail to improve technological capacity. Their reform has been a widely acknowledged challenge for three decades. This book demonstrates theoretically and empirically how aid practitioners shape the organizational, social and inter-cultural dynamics of development projects in industry.

    Part 1: Introduction
    Part 2: Development Anthropology
    Part 3: Constructing the Intelligibility of the Events Based on Participant Observation
    Part 4: Interpretation of the Events
    Part 5: Latent Processes in Technical Assistance
    Part 6: Technical Assistance Event Management
    Part 7: Outlook

    Biography

    Grammig, Thomas

    'A useful addition to emerging thought on technical development projects.' - Saul Halfon, Science Technology and Human Values

    'I think Grammig's study has much to offer a social studies audience. It opens up the very common development practice of TA to an analysis that moves far beyond the confines of technical assessment.' - Saul Halfon, Science Technology and Human Values