Beschreibung:
This book disputes the model of development by design and argues that institutions are formed through institutional bricolage, the uneven patching together of old practices and accepted norms with new arrangements. The book draws on a number of contemporary strands of development thinking, and synthesises these to develop new understandings of why and how people act to manage resources and how access is secured or denied.
Acknowledgements. Preface 1. Getting Institutions Right: Interrogating Theory and Policy 2. Introducing Bricolage 3. The Way we have Always Done it 4. Plural Institutions; New Arrangements, Old Inequalities? 5. Continuity and Change: Gendered Agency and Bricolage 6. Piecing Together Policy Knowledge: Promises and Pitfalls 7. Remapping the Institutional Landscape 8. Transforming Institutions? Index