ERC Consolidator Grant · 2024
Actually Existing Development: Twentieth Century International Development and the Global South
International development—the cross-border transfer of funds and expertise for developmental purposes—formed a core plank of the twentieth century international system. But we still know very little about the grassroots dynamics of international development in the twentieth century. DEVHIST will be the first project to systematically examine the encounters between individuals, groups and worldviews that both attended and often reshaped international development at points of implementation across the Global South, from the 1950s to the 1990s. Taking the site of implementation as a dynamic space of renegotiation, this project will expose and interrogate the gap between planned and Actually…
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