Far-fetched facts : a parable of development aid / Richard Rottenburg ; translated by Allison Brown and Tom Lampert.
This is a fictionalized ethnographic study of development aid in sub-Saharan Africa that focuses on technologies of inscription in the interactions of development banks, international experts and local managers.
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Cambridge, Mass. :
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| Series: | Inside technology.
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Table of Contents:
- The solid ground of development policy
- The risks of the entrepreneur
- The disclosures of science
- Interstitial spaces
- Trading zones
- Metacode, cultural code.