Groups as a means or an end? Social capital and the promotion of cooperation in Ghana
Porter, Gina and Lyon, Fergus 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6275-4102
(2006)
Groups as a means or an end? Social capital and the promotion of cooperation in Ghana.
Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 24
(2)
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pp. 249-262.
ISSN 1472-3433
[Article]
(doi:10.1068/d0303)
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Abstract
In the past two decades there has been a growing emphasis within the international development industry on promoting group activity. This paper charts how interpretation of the loose concept of social capital has shaped donor and NGO discourses on, and their preoccupation with, groups. Donors are using blueprints of group cooperation in an asocial and aspatial manner that ignores local specificities of place, space and cultural context. An empirical case is examined that demonstrates how donor discourse is reinterpreted, translated and even rejected by players at different spatial scales. The reasons for the continued donor preoccupation with groups in the face of local resistances are explored.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Research Areas: | A. > Business School > Centre for Enterprise and Economic Development Research (CEEDR) |
| Item ID: | 18895 |
| Notes on copyright: | This is an Author Accepted Manuscript, the final published version of the article is available on SAGE Journals (http://online.sagepub.com): http://dx.doi.org/10.1068/d0303 |
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| Depositing User: | Stanislava Angelova |
| Date Deposited: | 22 Feb 2016 11:44 |
| Last Modified: | 30 Nov 2022 02:10 |
| URI: | https://eprints.mdx.ac.uk/id/eprint/18895 |
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