Description: FREE SHIPPING UK WIDE Guerrilla Auditors by Kregg Hetherington An ethnography exploring disagreements among Paraguayan peasants, government bureaucrats, and development experts about how state bureaucracy should function, what archival documents are for, and who gets to narrate the past. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Guerrilla Auditors is an ethnographic account of the rise of information, transparency, and good governance in the post-Cold War era, and the effects of these concepts on Paraguays transition to democracy. Kregg Hetherington shows that the ideal of transparent information, meant to depoliticize bureaucratic procedures, has become a battleground for a new kind of politics centered on legal interpretation and the manipulation of official documents. In late-twentieth-century Paraguay, peasant land politics moved unexpectedly from the roads and fields into the documentary recesses of state bureaucracy. When peasants, bureaucrats, and development experts encountered one another in state archives, conflicts ensued about how bureaucracy ought to function, what documents are for, and who gets to narrate the past and the future of the nation. Hetherington argues that Paraguays neoliberal democracy is predicated, at least in part, on an exclusionary distinction between model citizens and peasants. Despite this, peasant activists have found ways to circumvent their exclusion and in so doing question the conceptual foundations of international development orthodoxy. Notes An ethnographic account of the rise of information, transparency, and good governance in the post-Cold War era, and the effects of these concepts on Paraguays transition to democracy Author Biography Kregg Hetherington is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Table of Contents Acknowledgments ixNote on Names xiiiIntroduction 11. The Transition to Democracy 252. Ill-Gotten Land 663. Precarious Lots 974. Duplicitous Documents 1435. Populist Transparency 184Epilogue 223Notes 233Bibliography 263Index 283 Review "After more than four decades of authoritarian rule by General Alfredo Stroessner, Paraguays transition to democracy began in 1989. As occurred in many parts of the world in that year, Paraguay post-1989 embraced a new globally-informed style of governance that celebrated transparency as a marker of modernity and democratic openness. Guerrilla auditors tells the story of this democratic transition through the lens of Paraguays campesino movement and its struggle with large soybean producers for land... Combining shrewd political analysis, compassionate ethnography and a deft command of social theory, Guerrilla auditors is a path-breaking portrait of the contested meanings of democracy and transparency under neoliberalism." - Social Anthropology/Anthropologie Sociale 21.3 August 2013 "Guerrilla Auditors is the most exciting book Ive read on neoliberal reform in the global south. It changes how social scientists will look at documents and study land reform, populism, and peasants. The argument is brilliant and original, and the combination of ethnography and theory is superb. The book shows why ethnography matters." Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, co-editor of Words in Motion: Toward a Global Lexicon "Understanding that property and the neo-liberal project of transparency rest on paperwork, Kregg Hetherington brilliantly de-constructs the politics of paperwork. His astute, closely observed, and entertaining study is radical scholarship at its deepest and most searching. A powerful point of departure for the next generation of critiques of development." James C. Scott, Co-director: Program in Agrarian Studies, Yale University Promotional An ethnographic account of the rise of information, transparency, and good governance in the post-Cold War era, and the effects of these concepts on Paraguays transition to democracy Review Quote "Understanding that property and the neo-liberal project of transparency rest on paperwork, Kregg Hetherington brilliantly de-constructs the politics of paperwork. His astute, closely observed, and entertaining study is radical scholarship at its deepest and most searching. A powerful point of departure for the next generation of critiques of development."- James C. Scott , Co-director: Program in Agrarian Studies, Yale University Promotional "Headline" An ethnographic account of the rise of information, transparency, and good governance in the post-Cold War era, and the effects of these concepts on Paraguays transition to democracy Details ISBN082235036X Author Kregg Hetherington Short Title GUERRILLA AUDITORS Language English ISBN-10 082235036X ISBN-13 9780822350361 Media Book Format Paperback Publisher Duke University Press Year 2011 Imprint Duke University Press Subtitle The Politics of Transparency in Neoliberal Paraguay Place of Publication North Carolina Country of Publication United States Publication Date 2011-09-14 UK Release Date 2011-09-14 AU Release Date 2011-09-14 NZ Release Date 2011-09-14 US Release Date 2011-09-14 Pages 312 DEWEY 989.2073 Illustrations 12 illustrations, 1 map Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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ISBN-13: 9780822350361
Book Title: Guerrilla Auditors
ISBN: 9780822350361
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication Year: 2011
Subject: Sociology, Anthropology, History
Item Height: 235 mm
Number of Pages: 312 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Guerrilla Auditors: the Politics of Transparency in Neoliberal Paraguay
Type: Textbook
Author: Kregg Hetherington
Item Width: 156 mm
Format: Paperback
