CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2015
| Author | Kálvin-Tóth, Anett |
|---|---|
| Title | THE KNOWLEDGE INTERFACES OF DEVELOPMENT IN NEPAL - THE CASE OF NUTRITION INTERVENTIONS |
| Summary | The aim of the thesis is to offer an ethnographic description of the various effects and local configurations of shifting development programs and policies in Nepal. By focusing on the case of recently introduced nutrition intervention programs in the country, I discuss the implications of the shift from welfare-type, state-centered development programs to decentralized, market-led approaches to development. To reveal the various ways of how macro-level changes embed within local livelihoods and knowledge systems, I will introduce the notion of knowledge interfaces that connects the political-economic and governmentality approaches to neoliberal development, but goes beyond the reductive framework of dominance and resistance. Drawing on this concept I will show the various possibilities and constraints that nutrition interventions have opened up, and through my ethnographic analysis I will illustrate the various ways that people navigate within these. I will argue that to fully understand present knowledge interfaces of development, they have to be seen as not only influenced by global level forces but also by previous local-level configurations of development programs. Knowledge interfaces when seen as situated on a continuum can introduce a wider variety of aspects to the analysis of development encounters that I will illustrate through a case study of a rural community in Jitpurphedi. |
| Supervisor | Monterescu, Daniel; Kalb, Don |
| Department | Sociology MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2015/toth_anett.pdf |
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