Depoliticizing Development by John Harriss - 9781843310495

Depoliticizing DevelopmentThe World Bank and Social Capital\nAuthor(s): John Harriss\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Anthem Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Anthem Press\nISBN-13: 9781843310495, 978-1843310495\nSynopsis\nThe idea of social capital meaning, most simply put, 'social connections' was unheard of outside a small circle of sociologists until very recently. Now, it is proclaimed by the World Bank to be the 'missing link' in international development and has become the subject of a flurry of books and research papers. Harriss asks why this notion should have taken off in the dramatic way that it has done and finds in its uses by the World Bank the attempt, systematically, to obscure class relations and power.