Running with the hare and hunting with the hounds in Guinea-Bissau: the politics of NGO and state development

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Title:	Running with the hare and hunting with the hounds in Guinea-Bissau: the politics of NGO and state development
Author:	Temudo, Marina Padrão
Year:	2015
Periodical:	Politique africaine (ISSN 0244-7827)
Issue:	137
Pages:	129-149
Language:	English
Geographic term:	Guinea-Bissau
Subjects:	NGO State corruption State-society relationship
Abstract:	Through a detailed case study of the workings of a local NGO in Guinea-Bissau and of how different actors play with shifting roles, the article elucidates the inadequacy of conventional binary oppositions between domination and resistance, northern powerful donors and powerless local development organizations, and between the state and African civil society. The farmers' strategies reflect their increasing disillusionment and mistrust regarding external actors and reproduce a 'moral economy of disorder' in local political culture. The author's personal entanglement in the case study highlights the challenges raised in engaged ethnography. Notes, ref., sum. in English and French. [Journal abstract]