Percepciones del Desarrollo, dentro y fuera del continente africano

Abstract

Departing from Sandra Wallman's edited book, Perceptions of Development (Cambridge University Press, 1977), authors emphasize the relevance of documenting and analyzing contexts, discourses and practices of development, especially within the field of International Cooperation (Programs, Plans, Projects), and most certainly in Development Studies. Thus people have agency and respond to economic and social change by organizing themselves, resisting, mobilizing and so on. The concept "perceptions of development" (Wallman, 1977) helps to clarify and contextualize local discourses and practices of development, quite often ignored by policy makers and technicians working in Africa and beyond.