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The Anti-Politics Machine:

Development, Depoliticization, and Bureaucratic Power in Lesotho
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CUP Archive, 1990 - Political Science - 320 pages
  

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Review: The Anti-Politics Machine: "Development," Depoliticization, and Bureaucratic Power in Lesotho

User Review  - Alexei - Goodreads

Brilliant and lucid. The cornerstone of post-development critique and a wonderful narrative to accompany salient discourse. Read full review

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Contents

Introduction
3
the constitution
25
Distribution of wealth
45
the Thaba
74
aspects of economy
103
recruited for and on strength of South African mines
118
a study
135
October 1980October 1983
140
The decentralization debacle
194
Revised Plan of Operations
223
Crop development and some other
228
The antipolitics machine
251
Epilogue
279
Notes
289
References
304
Index
314

JI Imports of livestock 19701978
154
Livestock development
169

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The Anti-Politics Machine
The Anti-Politics Machine. "Development", Depoliticization, and Bureaucratic Power in Lesotho. James Ferguson. The Anti-Politics Machine. $22.50 Paper ...
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The Anti-Politics Machine: "Development," Depoliticization, and Bureaucratic Power in Lesotho. Arturo Escobar. American Ethnologist, Vol. 18, No. ...
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The Anti-Politics Machine
Ferguson, James. 1994 While this might seem at first glance to be the odd-man out in this list, Ferguson has made an important contribution to the ...
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The Anti-Politics Machine: "Development," Depoliticization, and Bureaucratic Power in Lesotho. (book reviews) from American Political Science Review in ...
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anthrosource | American Ethnologist - 18(3):618 - Citation
Citation. Home >> Journals >> Issues >> Contents >> Citation. American Ethnologist. August 1991, Vol. 18, No. 3, pp. 618-620. Posted online on October 26, ...
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Ferguson, James - Chair and Professor | Department of Anthropology
Ferguson, James - Chair and Professor. Ph.D. Harvard, 1988. Professor Ferguson’s research has been conducted in Lesotho and Zambia, and has engaged a broad ...
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a significant impact on the dynamics of urban space. An imaginary ...
a significant impact on the dynamics of urban space. An imaginary nature has. been fostered in urban design to provide some semblance of continuity with the ...
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REVIEW. TRANSFORMATION 13(1990). THEIRONIESOFDEVELOPMENT. Review of James Ferguson The Anti-Politics Machine;. 'Development, ...
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About the author (1990)

James Ferguson is Professor of Cultural and Social Anthropology at Stanford University. He is the author of Expectations of Modernity: Myths and Meanings of Urban Life on the Zambian Copperbelt and The Anti-Politics Machine: ???Development, ??? Depoliticization, and Bureaucratic Power in Lesotho. He is a coeditor of Culture, Power, Place: Explorations in Critical Anthropology, also published by Duke University Press, and of Anthropological Locations: Boundaries and Grounds of a Field Science.

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