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Technical knowledge and development : observing aid projects and processes / Thomas Grammig.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Grammig, Thomas, 1960-
- Series:
- Routledge studies in development and society.
- Routledge studies in development and society
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Technical assistance--Developing countries.
- Technical assistance.
- Technology transfer--Developing countries.
- Technology transfer.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (250 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Routledge, 2002.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Book Cover; Title; Contents; Preface; Introduction; Development anthropology; Constructing the intelligibility of the events based on participant observation; Interpretation of the events; Latent processes in technical assistance; Technical assistance event management; Outlook; Notes; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-134-52489-7
- 1-134-52490-0
- 1-280-40167-2
- 0-203-27876-3
- 9780203164686
- OCLC:
- 437077162
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