Alternative modernity: Development discourse in post-apartheid South Africa

International Social Science Journal

Volumn 60, Issue 195, 2009, Pages 69-84

  Greenstein, Ran ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPACITY BUILDING; DEVELOPMENT DISCOURSE; DEVELOPMENT PROJECT; EMPOWERMENT; INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK; MODERNITY; POST-APARTHEID;

SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 73949143090     PISSN: 00208701     EISSN: 14682451     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-2451.2009.01701.x     Document Type: Article

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