A village and its NGOs : : co-constructing NGO presence in rural Malawi / / by Thomas McNamara.

• Superior document: African social studies series ; Volume 45
• VerfasserIn: McNamara, Thomas (Lecturer in development studies),
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, The Netherlands ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: African social studies series ; Volume 45.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (175 pages)

In rural Northern Malawi, villagers co-construct meanings for NGOs' projects and resources. NGOs and their staff are invoked within, yet simultaneously influence, intra-community debates. This book explores NGO presence through detailing relationships, personhoods and social changes within a rural community. It argues that NGOs' projects have less impact on many Malawians' lives than the ways their presence encourages villagers to re-image development and renegotiate intra-community obligations and entitlements. The book examines moral economies and discourses of development by detailing how development narratives are built around the symbols development actors emit. It also investigates the intra-village social lives of development brokers.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / Thomas McNamara -- Copyright page / Thomas McNamara -- Acknowledgements / Thomas McNamara -- Introduction / Thomas McNamara -- Part 1 The Moral Economy of 'Becoming Developed' / Thomas McNamara -- Chapter 1 Dependent Development in Vsawa and Malawi / Thomas McNamara -- Chapter 2 Moral Economies of Patronage, Inequality and Development / Thomas McNamara -- Chapter 3 The Schooled and the Educated in Vsawa's Moral Economy / Thomas McNamara -- Part 2 The Intra-Village Brokerage of Development Projects / Thomas McNamara -- Chapter 4 Village Headmen and the Dyad between Development and Traditional Rule / Thomas McNamara -- Chapter 5 NGO Staff, Culturalist Projects and the Developer-Beneficiary Dichotomy / Thomas McNamara -- Chapter 6 Volunteers' Labour and the Creation of Stable Development Discourse / Thomas McNamara -- Conclusion / Thomas McNamara -- References / Thomas McNamara -- Index / Thomas McNamara.