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24 - Anthropology and Development Studies
University of Edinburgh
In the Shadow of Good Governance : An Ethnography of Civil Service Reform in Africa
Chapter 3 of the book ‘In the Shadow of Good Governance: An Ethnography of Civil Service Reform’ (pp. 28-48) contains selected passages (approximately 6 pages), that also appear in the article ‘The Normativity of Numbers: World Bank and IMF Conditionality’, PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review’ 31(2) (November 2008).
The book ‘In the Shadow of Good Governance: An Ethnography of Civil Service Reform in Africa’ is based on extensive primary fieldwork carried out by Gerhard Anders in 1999, 2000, 2002 and 2007, over a total period of 16 months, between November 1999 and November 2000, February and March 2002, and November 2007. It was written between 2002 and 2009.
