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      Traveling Models and Practical Norms

      Jean-Pierre Olivier de Sardan

      Public policies, development projects, and NGO interventions often have large gaps between the planning and execution. Standardized public policies, especially development ones, ignore the multiple contexts in which they are…

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      States at Work: Dynamics of African Bureaucracies

      States at Work explores the mundane practices of state-making in Africa by focussing on the daily functioning of public services and the practices of civil servants.

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      Cash Transfers in Context

      Marginal in status a decade ago, cash transfer programs have become the preferred channel for delivering emergency aid or tackling poverty in low- and middle-income countries. While these programs have…

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      Cash Transfers in Context: An Anthropological Perspective

      Cash transfer programs have become the preferred channel for delivering emergency aid or tackling poverty in low-and middle-income countries. This book sheds light on their unpredicted consequences worldwide, detailing how…

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      Real Governance and Practical Norms in Sub-Saharan Africa: The game of the rules

      Although international development discourse considers the state as a crucial development actor, there remains a significant discrepancy between the official norms of the state and public services and the actual…

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      Real Governance and Practical Norms in Sub-Saharan Africa: The game of the rules

      Although international development discourse considers the state as a crucial development actor, there remains a significant discrepancy between the official norms of the state and public services and the actual…

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      Epistemology, Fieldwork, and Anthropology

      Antoinette Tidjani Alou,Jean-Pierre Olivier de Sardan

      Epistemology, Fieldwork, and Anthropology provides a systematic examination of the empirical foundations of interpretations and grounded theories in anthropology. Olivier de Sardan explores the nature of the links between observed…

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      Everyday Corruption and the State: Citizens and Public Officials in Africa

      Giorgio Blundo,Jean-Pierre Olivier de-Sardan,N. B. Arifari,M. T. Alou

      Presents an analysis of how and why corruption governs everyday life in Africa. This book constructs an analytical frame of reference around the various forms of corruption; the corruptive strategies…

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      Yearning and Refusal

      Hadiza Moussa

      Drawing upon original in-depth interviews with women in Niamey, Niger, Yearning and Refusal unveils the hidden issue of failed fertility in Niger and the ways in which women continue to…

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