Doing Development in West Africa :A Reader by and for Undergraduates
Doing Development in West Africa :A Reader by and for Undergraduates
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6 September, 2016
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Description
Contributors. Cheyenne Allenby, Kelly Andrejko, Connor Cotton, Allie Middleton, Caitlin Moyles, Charles Piot, Benjamin Ramsey, Maria Cecilia Romano, Stephanie Rotolo, Emma Smith, Sarah Zimmerman
More Details
| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| ISBN13 | 9780822361923 |
| ISBN10 | 0822361922 |
| Number Of Pages | 232 |
| Item Weight | 318 g |
| Publisher / Reseller | Duke University Press |
| Format | paperback |
Media Reviews
"Students are refreshingly candid about the nature and multitude of problems they faced and the need to scale back their expectations. As Piot notes, development is hard work. Highly recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty."
- S. Paul (Choice) "Doing Development in West Africa constitutes an impressive practical and scholarly accomplishment. . . . Contributions and challenges, strengths and limitations, joys and frustrations find articulate and compelling voices in this forthright treatment of selected small-scale student projects undertaken over the past eight years." - Peter H. Koehn (Journal of Modern African Studies) "Doing Development in West Africa will be a valuable book for courses in international development, African studies, and development anthropology, and provides good 'hands-on' guidance for students preparing for summer projects in Africa, Asia, or Latin America. While written for undergraduates, the book also provides important lessons for development practitioners who often fail to appreciate the importance of local context, history, and knowledge systems, and then wonder why their development efforts go awry." - Peter D. Little (African Studies Review) "This is an unusual and unusually useful volume. . . . Clearly, this little volume can be used to advantage not only in courses on development but also in applied anthropology and qualitative methods courses." - Constance deRoche (General Anthropology)
Author's Bio
Charles Piot is Professor of Cultural Anthropology and African and African American Studies at Duke University, and the author of Nostalgia for the Future: West Africa after the Cold War.