Constructing Development - Civil Society and Literacy in a Time of Globalization

von: Bjorn Harald Nordtveit

Springer-Verlag, 2009

ISBN: 9789048122356 , 172 Seiten

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Constructing Development - Civil Society and Literacy in a Time of Globalization


 

Contents

6

Acronyms

8

List of Figures

10

List of Tables

11

Prelude

12

A Sense of Development

19

1.1 Development Discourses

20

1.2 The World Bank, Ideology, and Globalization

23

1.3 West Africa and Senegal

28

1.4 A World Bank School System?

30

1.5 A Case Study: The Women’s Literacy Project

33

Conservative Economic Policies

36

2.1 A Conservative Discourse

37

2.2 Creation of a Policy

44

2.3 Creation of a Project

49

2.4 Why the World BankWas Involved

56

Civil Society, Women, Illiteracy

65

3.1 Old and New Discourses on Civil Society

67

3.2 World Bank Creation of Civil Society

71

3.3 Gender Discourses

77

3.4 Constructing Gender

82

A Literate and Enabling Environment

93

4.1 Literacy Education

95

4.2 Production of Literacy

99

4.3 Production of a Literate Environment in Local Languages

105

4.4 Poor Education for PoorWomen

109

The Partnership Approach

119

5.1 A Provider’s Story

119

5.2 Selection

122

5.3 Monitoring and Evaluation

128

5.4 Moral Hazard

131

Constructing Cost-Effectiveness in Development

141

6.1 A Disastrous Combination?

142

6.2 Whose Ineffectiveness?

147

The World Bank, Civil Society, and the Market

152

7.1 A Product of Its Time

152

7.2 Levels of Change

159

7.3 Dialectical and Complex Relationships

162

7.4 What for? – Where to? – And What Then?

167

Bibliography

176

Author Index

182

Subject Index

184