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This is a book whose time is overdue...It is a welcome addition to a burgeoning field of anthropological studies in which development plays a part, a book that will be widely read and appreciated... It is]sophisticated, relevant, sufficiently up to date and interesting in the way in which it framed the new forms that anthropological engagement with development might take. Andrea Cornwall, University of Sussex

Over the last two decades, anthropological studies have highlighted the problems of 'development' as a discursive regime, arguing that such initiatives are paradoxically used...

"The themes and styles are refreshingly diverse but all the contributors remind us that what many development scholars and policy-makers downgrade as 'context' -history, ways of making meaning, political disputes -are often central to explaining development practice... This book]not only implies the need for a classificatory rethink, which has been widely recognized for decades, but also gives us the ethnographic material to see how fruitful a more concerted anthropology of development in Europe could be." - Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute

"This is a book whose time is...