Career ambitions and local expertise: understanding involvments in a development world
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Communication dans un congrès
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2013-06-27, Lisbonne.
Resumen en inglés
The involvement of local experts in development projects is an issue that has been raised by focusing on the role played by organizational, bureaucratic and political dynamics that give consistency to the daily work of ...Leer más >
The involvement of local experts in development projects is an issue that has been raised by focusing on the role played by organizational, bureaucratic and political dynamics that give consistency to the daily work of such experts. This paper aims to show how these different modes of involvment are intertwined and shape local expertise. It focuses on careers of local experts and shows how local expertise gets standardized. More specifically, to understand this standardization, it pays attention on the role played by professional aspirations for development world and finally shows how these aspirations may limite critical involvment.< Leer menos
Palabras clave
Sida
Aide internationale
Développement
Expertise locale
Experts
Carrières
Bénin
Afrique
Palabras clave en inglés
AIDS
International aid
Development
Local expertise
Careers
Africa
Orígen
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