Cultivating Development: An Ethnography of Aid Policy and Practice

By D. Mosse. 2004

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Conservation practice as primitive accumulation (2011, background): “In current environmental policy paradigms, the creation of protected areas is a visible and tangible sign of success, one that these large conservation NGOs can use to draw in more funding (Mosse 2004, 2005).”
The water question in feminism: water control and gender inequities in a neo-liberal era (2009, background): “…models on which these are based among policy-makers are more likely to be linked to their success in generating funds and power than to the accuracy and validity of their statements about the determinants of water management performance or about the behaviour of water users12 (cf. Mosse 2005).”
The digital revolution in financial inclusion: international development in the fintech era (2017, unknown): “Exclusion was thus the fault and responsibility of financial capital, that conducts ‘ an insidious and relatively unremarked-upon assault […] upon poorer and disadvantaged groups ’ (Leyshon and Thrift 1995: 314).”
Collective Action, Common Property, and Social Capital in South India: An Anthropological Commentary (2006, background): “Indeed, this social capital discourse reveals the structural marginality of a noneconomist professional group constantly having to persuade those with power (task managers, vice presidents, and regional budget holders) that social relations are important to development (Mosse 2004).”
Building State Capability: Evidence, Analysis, Action (2017, background): “As pointed out in different contexts by Scott (1998), Ferguson (1994), and Mosse (2005)—among many others and the simple vignette that opens the chapter—it actually takes a special kind of training and mindset to “stabilize the epistemic framing” (Mosse 2005) and not see the gap.”
Tourism and poverty reduction: theory and practice in less economically developed countries (2012, background): “This paper contributes to the recent surge in “aidnography”, or ethnographic encounters with the international development sector (see Büscher, 2010; Mosse, 2005),”
Virtual nature, violent accumulation: The ‘spectacular failure’ of carbon offsetting at a Ugandan National Park (2014, background): “To avoid this, above all else, a stable ‘translation’ (Mosse, 2005) of the social, political, and ecological relations involved in the offset project must be maintained among all actors involved.”
What contribution can insights from the complexity sciences make to the theory and practice of development management (2008, background): “These include Wallace et al. (1997), Quarles van Ufford and Giri (2003), Eyben (2005, 2006), Mosse (2005), Mosse and Lewis (2005) and Wallace et al. (2006).”
The empty rhetoric of poverty reduction at the base of the pyramid (2012, methodology): “Over time, however, the poor (in ‘pro-poor’ development projects) may understand what a project can provide, and thus gain some planning or policy knowledge about the development agency’s activities (Mosse, 2005).”
Left to Other Peoples’ Devices? A Political Economy Perspective on the Big Data Revolution in Development (2017, background): “…such policy making is much more likely to be successful when producers are actively informed, as earlier research demonstrated (Chambers, 1997; Heeks, 2008; Mosse, 2005, 2011) and such benefits will only accrue when data governance allows public use and oversight of private commercial datasets.”
Commodity conservation: The restructuring of community conservation in South Africa and the Philippines (2012, background): “While this ‘upward orientation’ to receive legitimacy for interventions seems to be a general feature of conservation/development interventions (Mosse, 2005), they nonetheless still need to engage with ‘the local’ in order to come to real-world ‘solutions’ for linking conservation and development.”