Beschreibung:
An important and pioneering study that considers the problematic relationship between development and psychology, tracing the deployment of psychological knowledge in the production/reproduction of power relations within the context of development policy and intervention.
Acknowledgements 1. Introduction 2. Power and psychology 3. Genealogies of the psychologisation of development interventions 4. The psychologisation of contemporary development interventions 5. The State and implementing subjectivities 6. A place for psychology in development? 7. Conclusions. References