Developmentality

Jon Harald Sande Lie is a Senior Research Fellow at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI). He is co-editor of Forum for Development Studies, and has published in the journals Social Analysis, Millennium, and African Security. He is also the co-editor of Security and Development (Berghahn Books 2010).

“This is an incredibly important contribution to our understanding of World Bank operations, thinking, and practice. The author’s account of his time at the Bank and in Uganda makes the book at times compelling, or in more conventional parlance, a ‘page-turner!’”  ·  Clive Gabay, Queen Mary University of London“A unique study of the way the World Bank deals with its clients. Set in Uganda as the PRS system begins to dismantle, this is a complex account of the subtle contestations which comprise development in practice.”  ·  Maia Green, The University of Manchester“This is an original, interesting, timely book...the author has been able to get inside deliberations between the World Bank and one of its clients. [The book] demonstrates how the Bank’s modus operandi essentially dictates how states work around it, where the Bank’s operations drive development. This book is unique in putting the puzzle together in a fresh way.”  ·  Susan Park, University of Sydney

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction: Introducing DevelopmentalityChapter 1. DevelopmentalityChapter 2. The World Bank and the New Aid Architecture – the Official DiscourseChapter 3. Moving Beyond Official Discourse: Interfaces and Disjuncture within the BankChapter 4. A Meeting of Partners: Developmentality as Seen from UgandaChapter 5. Developmentality and the Politics of HarmonisationChapter 6. A Metamorphosis of Power Relations? The New Aid Architecture, Partnership and the StateConclusion: Revisiting DevelopmentalityBibliographyIndex