"Based on extensive original research that has critically examined the role and functions of the organizations of the UN development system, this book seeks to capture in a single volume a comprehensive review of the UN's performance and prospects for development. The contributo…
Introduction: the moral object of sex / Stacy Leigh Pigg and Vincanne Adams -- Globalizing the facts of life / Stacy Leigh Pigg -- Moral science and the management of "sexual revolution" in Russia / Michele Rivkin-Fish -- Family planning, human nature, and the ethical subject of…
In How Development Projects Persist Erin Beck examines microfinance NGOs working in Guatemala and problematizes the accepted wisdom of how NGOs function. Drawing on twenty months of ethnographic fieldwork, she shows how development models and plans become entangled in the relati…
In this important new book, High argues that poverty reduction policies are formulated and implemented in fields of desire. Drawing on psychoanalytic understandings of desire, she shows that such programs circulate around the question of what is lacking. Far from rational respon…
