A01=Rebecca Warne Peters
administrators
African studies
Angola
Author_Rebecca Warne Peters
Category=JHMC
Category=JPS
Category=JPVH
Category=JPWH
development studies
eq_bestseller
eq_isMigrated=1
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
eq_society-politics
external dynamics
foreign aid
foreign assistance
global political economy
good governance
humanitarianism
implementers
Inequality
internal dynamics
internal social pressures
international development
international development industry
international intervention
international relations
international staff
international studies
labor
national staff
NGOs
Non-profits
nonprofit management
policy makers
postwar Angola
professional class
public administration
public policy
the development implementariat
Product details
- ISBN 9781978808973
- Weight: 426g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 17 Jan 2020
- Publisher: Rutgers University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
Secure
checkout
Fast Shipping
Easy returns
Implementing Inequality argues that the international development industry's internal dynamics—between international and national staff, and among policy makers, administrators, and implementers—shape interventions and their outcomes as much as do the external dynamics of global political economy. Through an ethnographic study in postwar Angola, the book demonstrates how the industry's internal social pressures guide development's methods and goals, introducing the innovative concept of the development implementariat: those in-country workers, largely but not exclusively "local" staff members, charged with carrying out development's policy prescriptions. The implementariat is central to the development endeavor but remains overlooked and under-supported as most of its work is deeply social, interactive, and relational, the kind of work that receives less recognition and support than it deserves at every echelon of the industry. If international development is to meet its larger purpose, it must first address its internal inequalities of work and professional class.
Rebecca Warne Peters is an assistant professor of anthropology at the State University of New York, Oswego.
