Archive for May 1st, 2017
Erin Beck’s book now out
How Development Projects Persist: Everyday Negotiations with Guatemalan NGOs
by Erin Beck. Duke University Press (May 2017)
Erin Beck is an assistant professor of political science at the University of Oregon and a member of the CLLAS Executive Board.
“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 relationships among local actors in ways that alter what they are, how they are valued, and the conditions of their persistence. › Continue reading
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Recent Postings
- Erin Beck wins book award
- Three CLLAS affiliated faculty members win Fund for Faculty Excellence Awards
- Education professor Lauren M. Cycyk among first recipients of new UO-OHSU seed funding
- PhD candidate James Daria receives a Food Studies Graduate Research Grant
- Spring 2018 CLLAS Notes now available
- Led by new president Lynn Stephen, LASA forms an anti-harassment task force at annual meeting
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