Development and aid projects often fail to improve technological capacity. Their reform has been a widely acknowledged challenge for three decades. This book demonstrates theoretically and empirically how aid practitioners shape the organizational, social and inter-cultural dynamics of development projects in industry.Part 1: Introduction Part 2: Development Anthropology Part 3: Constructing the Intelligibility of the Events Based on Participant Observation Part 4: Interpretation of the Events Part 5: Latent Processes in Technical Assistance Part 6: Technical Assistance Event Management Part 7: Outlook'A useful addition to emerging thought on technical development projects.'- Saul Halfon, Science Technology and Human Values
'I think Grammig's study has much to offer a social studies audience. It opens up the very common development practice of TA to an analysis that moves far beyond the confines of technical assessment.'- Saul Halfon, Science Technology and Human Values
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