PROF David Mosse's Outputs (81)

Cultivating Development: An Ethnography of Aid Policy and Practice (2005)
Book
Mosse, D. (2005). Cultivating Development: An Ethnography of Aid Policy and Practice. Pluto Press. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt18fs4st

The Aid Effect: Giving and Governing in International Development (2005)
Book
Mosse, D., & Lewis, D. (Eds.). (2005). The Aid Effect: Giving and Governing in International Development. Pluto Press. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt18fs3zx

Today international development policy is converging around ideas of neoliberal reform, democratisation and poverty reduction. What does this mean for the local and international dimensions of aid relationships? The Aid Effect demonstrates the fruitf... Read More about The Aid Effect: Giving and Governing in International Development.

Power relations and poverty reduction (2004)
Book Chapter
Mosse, D. (2004). Power relations and poverty reduction. In R. Alsop (Ed.), Power, rights and poverty: concepts and connections (51-67). The World Bank

Is good policy unimplementable? Reflections on the ethnography of aid policy and practice (2004)
Journal Article
Mosse, D. (2004). Is good policy unimplementable? Reflections on the ethnography of aid policy and practice. Development and Change, 35(4), 639-671. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.0012-155X.2004.00374.x

Social analysis as product development: anthropologists at work in the World Bank (2004)
Book Chapter
Mosse, D. (2004). Social analysis as product development: anthropologists at work in the World Bank. In A. K. Giri, A. van Harskamp, & O. Salemink (Eds.), The development of religion / the religion of development (77-87). Eburon B V

The making and marketing of participatory development (2003)
Book Chapter
Mosse, D. (2003). The making and marketing of participatory development. In P. Quarles van Ufford, & A. K. Giri (Eds.), A Moral Critique of Development: In Search of Global Responsibilities (43-75). Routledge

Why are there so many failures and disappointments in development? Why have development goals been so unattainable? For those working within aid agencies perhaps the most common response is to say that past approaches have been misguided, and if only... Read More about The making and marketing of participatory development.

Interventions in development: towards a new moral understanding of our experiences and an agenda for the future (2003)
Book Chapter
Quarles van Ufford, P., Giri, A. K., & Mosse, D. (2003). Interventions in development: towards a new moral understanding of our experiences and an agenda for the future. In P. Quarles van Ufford, & A. K. Giri (Eds.), A Moral Critique of Development: In Search of Global Responsibilities (3-43). Routledge

The Rule of Water. Statecraft, Ecology and Collective Action in South India (2003)
Book
Mosse, D. (2003). The Rule of Water. Statecraft, Ecology and Collective Action in South India. Oxford University Press

Brokered livelihoods: debt, labour migration and development in tribal western India (2002)
Journal Article
Mosse, D., Gupta, S., Mehta, M., Shah, V., & Rees, J. (2002). Brokered livelihoods: debt, labour migration and development in tribal western India. The Journal of Development Studies, 38(5), 59-88. https://doi.org/10.1080/00220380412331322511

Irrigation and statecraft in Zamindari south India (2001)
Book Chapter
Mosse, D. (2001). Irrigation and statecraft in Zamindari south India. In C. J. Fuller, & V. Bénéï (Eds.), The everyday state and society in modern India (163-193). Hurst

Social Research in rural development projects (2001)
Book Chapter
Mosse, D. (2001). Social Research in rural development projects. In D. N. Gellner, & E. Hirsch (Eds.), Inside organizations: anthropologists at work (1577-182). Berg. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781474214971.ch-008

'People's knowledge', participation and patronage: operations and representations in rural development (2001)
Book Chapter
Mosse, D. (2001). 'People's knowledge', participation and patronage: operations and representations in rural development. In B. Cook, & U. Kothari (Eds.), Participation : the new tyranny? (16-35). Zed Press

Colonial and contemporary ideologies of community management: the case of tank irrigation development in South India (1999)
Journal Article
Mosse, D. (1999). Colonial and contemporary ideologies of community management: the case of tank irrigation development in South India. Modern Asian Studies, 33(2), 303-338. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0026749X99003285

Responding to subordination: identity and change among south Indian Untouchable castes (1999)
Book Chapter
Mosse, D. (1999). Responding to subordination: identity and change among south Indian Untouchable castes. In J. Campbell, & A. Rew (Eds.), Identity and affect: experiences of identity in a globalising world. Pluto Press

Development as Process: Concepts and Methods for Working With Complexity (1998)
Book
Mosse, D., Farrington, J., & Rew, A. (Eds.). (1998). Development as Process: Concepts and Methods for Working With Complexity. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203982754

Development as Process addresses the questions raised by the different natures of the two approaches. The authors examine development projects through experience in water resources development in India and in organizational learning by a Bangladeshi... Read More about Development as Process: Concepts and Methods for Working With Complexity.

Process documentation and process monitoring: cases and issues (1998)
Book Chapter
Mosse, D. (1998). Process documentation and process monitoring: cases and issues. In D. Mosse, J. Farrington, & A. Rew (Eds.), Development as Process: Concepts and Methods for Working with Complexity (31-53). Routledge

Process-oriented approaches to development practice and social research: an introduction (1998)
Book Chapter
Mosse, D. (1998). Process-oriented approaches to development practice and social research: an introduction. In D. Mosse, J. Farrington, & A. Rew (Eds.), Development as Process: Concepts and Methods for Working with Complexity (1-30). Routledge

The symbolic making of a common property resource: history, ecology and locality in a tank irrigated landscape in South India (1997)
Journal Article
Mosse, D. (1997). The symbolic making of a common property resource: history, ecology and locality in a tank irrigated landscape in South India. Development and Change, 28(3), 467-504. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-7660.00051

Honour, Caste and Conflict: The Ethnohistory of a Catholic Festival in Rural Tamil Nadu (1730-1990) (1997)
Book Chapter
Mosse, D. (1997). Honour, Caste and Conflict: The Ethnohistory of a Catholic Festival in Rural Tamil Nadu (1730-1990). In J. Assayag, & G. Tarabout (Eds.), Altérité et identité. Islam et christianisme en Inde (71-120). Editions de l'Ecole de Hautes Etudes en Science

The Ideology and Politics of community participation tank-irrigation development in colonial and contemporary Tamil Nadu (1996)
Book Chapter
Mosse, D. (1996). The Ideology and Politics of community participation tank-irrigation development in colonial and contemporary Tamil Nadu. In R. D. Grillo, & R. L. Stirrat (Eds.), Discourse of Development: anthropological perspectives (255-291). Berg