By Thomas Grammig
Improvement and reduction tasks frequently fail to enhance technological means. Their reform has been a largely said problem for 3 a long time. This booklet demonstrates theoretically and empirically how relief practitioners form the organizational, social and inter-cultural dynamics of improvement tasks in undefined.
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Irrespective of the fact that it is a planning unit for the development agency, a project is a viable anthropological object. Seen from outside the frame, the efforts of the actors appear to be incoherent. 2) delimits the scope of its definition and provides the optic for its discovery. In beginning within and then moving outside the frame, or microsocial space, Constructing the intelligibility of the events 37 the links between the subjective realities of the actors become clearer, giving their identities more substance.
The local experts lived a corresponding experience: ‘I do not accept this other, but I will conform myself to the other’; ‘I will do as the foreigner without becoming foreign’. The symbolism of foreignness took very different forms in the two contexts. However, the local actors in both Chad and Mexico pursued their symbolic work of discovering, and distinguishing themselves from, what constituted the local for the foreigner. The logic of their work was similar. The differences among the local actors were the expressions of the relative success of their symbolic constructions.
The symbolic economy of the lifeworlds (Chadian and French in one case, Mexican and US engineers in the other) determined the dynamics of the exchanges in each case. We will reconfirm this later by describing the idiosyncrasy of each implementation (Chapter 4). Here, we demonstrate that the different perspectives of the actors were coherent and complementary. Quotations from interviews and taped meetings confirm this. The actors are introduced as they appear. They addressed each other by their first names, but those in the text are fictitious.