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The anti-politics machine: "development," depoliticization, and bureaucratic power in Lesotho

·1990·Choice Reviews Online
DOI 10.5860/choice.28-2279
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Part 1 Introduction. Part 2 The apparatus: conceptual apparatus - the constitution of the object of development - Lesotho as less developed country institutional apparatus - the Thaba-Tseka project. Part 3 The target population: the setting - aspects of economy and society in rural Lesotho the bovine mystique - a study of power, property, and livestock in rural Lesotho. Part 4 The deployment of development: livestock the decentralization debacle crop and some other programmes of the Thaba-Tseka project. Part 5 Instrument-effects of a project: the anti-politics machine epilogue - What is to be done?

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Venue
Choice Reviews Online
Publisher
American Library Association
Published
1990-12-01
Volume
28
Issue
04
Pages
28-2279-28-2279
ISSN
  • 0009-4978 (ISSN-L)
  • 1523-8253
DOI
10.5860/choice.28-2279
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W1992925306
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