When Things are not as they Seem: Untangling the Webs of a South-Indian NGO

Abstract

[L]ife has become increasingly dangerous in the erratically moving river. The relatively closed circles of development agents may turn into dangerous vortices. Promises are empty, concrete practices of implementation lose their meaning. All of a sudden everything seems to be in a mess, and any kind of order seems to have been lost. (Quarles van Ufford, 1999, p. 292)

Citation

Staples, J. (2007), "When Things are not as they Seem: Untangling the Webs of a South-Indian NGO", Smith, M. (Ed.) Negotiating Boundaries and Borders (Studies in Qualitative Methodology, Vol. 8), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 131-153. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1042-3192(06)08007-4