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Groups as a means or an end? Social capital and the promotion of cooperation in Ghana
- Source :
- Environment and planning D : society and space, 2006, Vol.24(2), pp.249-262 [Peer Reviewed Journal]
- Publication Year :
- 2006
- Publisher :
- SAGE, 2006.
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Abstract
- In the past two decades there has been a growing emphasis within the international development industry on promoting group activity. In this paper we chart how interpretation of the loose concept of social capital has shaped donor and NGO discourses on, and their preoccupation with, groups. Donors are using blueprints of group cooperation in an asocial and aspatial manner that ignores local specificities of place, space, and cultural context. An empirical case is examined that demonstrates how donor discourse is reinterpreted, translated, and even rejected by players at different spatial scales. The reasons for the continued donor preoccupation with groups in the face of local resistances are explored.
- Subjects :
- Group cooperation
050204 development studies
media_common.quotation_subject
Geography, Planning and Development
0211 other engineering and technologies
Groups
Face (sociological concept)
02 engineering and technology
Environmental Science (miscellaneous)
Space (commercial competition)
Trust
Ghana
Promotion (rank)
Social capital
Blueprint
Culture
0502 economics and business
Sociology
Social science
media_common
Interpretation (philosophy)
05 social sciences
021107 urban & regional planning
Political economy
International development
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 14723433
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Environment and planning D : society and space, 2006, Vol.24(2), pp.249-262 [Peer Reviewed Journal]
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....e0083970ab7cea489660dc314b6a432b