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The Spirit of Development: Protestant NGOs, Morality, and Economics in Zimbabwe: No.2
Author(s): Erica Bornstein (Author)
- Publisher: Routledge
- Publication Date: 30 April 2003
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 225 pages
- ISBN-10: 0415943833
- ISBN-13: 9780415943833
Book Description
This work is an ethnographic account of the work of transnational, Christian non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in Zimbabwe. Protestant NGOs are one of the voices of pluralism in southern Africa, sometimes challenging the state and at other times collaborating with it. The tensions of such engagement are key to understanding the successes and failures of transnational, humanitarian endeavors to foster democratic governance in Zimbabwe. While much scholarship has been focused, theoretically, on the role of NGOs in democratization in Africa regarding international foreign policy, few studies offer empirically grounded insights into how transnational NGOs operate.The Spirit of Development addresses, ethnographically, how an American discourse of Christian humanitarianism transforms and is transformed by, local settings.
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About the Author
Erica Bornstein currently teaches in the Department of Cultural and Social Anthropology at Stanford University.
