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How Development Projects Persist: Everyday Negotiations with Guatemalan NGOs
Duke University Press
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ISBN electronic:
978-0-8223-7291-2
Publication date:
2017
Book Chapter
Repackaging Development in Guatemala
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Published:April 2017
This chapter provides a historical overview of development trends in Guatemala, embedding national developments in a changing international context. It demonstrates how projects do not disappear but are repackaged using new buzzwords, as can be seen with the continued emphasis on nontraditional crops, credit, technology, and discourses of entrepreneurship and self-help before, during, and after the armed conflict in Guatemala. Furthermore, the chapter demonstrates that international discourses and practices influenced but did not dictate national and local development efforts in the country. Rather, they interacted with the Guatemalan context in which local actors exercised varying degrees of agency. In addition...
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