1989
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9523.1989.tb00368.x
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Demythologizing Planned Intervention: An Actor Perspective

Abstract: The principal aim of this paper is to demythologize current notions on planned intervention. This, we believe, is indispensible for the development of a critical analysis of policy and intervention practices'. We argue that it is important to challenge the time-space definitions, normative assumptions and praxeology implied in orthodox intervention models; and we expose the limitations of certain theoretical conceptions that underpin them, giving particular attention to the theorization of commoditization, ins… Show more

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“…Within the policy implementation process advisors are understood to occupy a powerful and influential position as they seek to persuade and manipulate farmers to their agenda (Jones et al, 1987;Long and van der Ploeg, 1989;van der Ban and Hawkins, 1996). The description of a 'change agent' as 'an individual who influences clients' innovation-decisions in a direction deemed desirable by a change agency' reveals where the power lies in the traditional farmer-advisor relationship (Rogers, 1995 p. 335).…”
Section: Advisors and Powermentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Within the policy implementation process advisors are understood to occupy a powerful and influential position as they seek to persuade and manipulate farmers to their agenda (Jones et al, 1987;Long and van der Ploeg, 1989;van der Ban and Hawkins, 1996). The description of a 'change agent' as 'an individual who influences clients' innovation-decisions in a direction deemed desirable by a change agency' reveals where the power lies in the traditional farmer-advisor relationship (Rogers, 1995 p. 335).…”
Section: Advisors and Powermentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Central and often overlooked elements in the realisation of such uneven outcomes are the structural discontinuities or interfaces between for example policy makers and farmers (Long, 2001), the heterogeneity in political culture between regions (Rubin, 1990), and the nature of local social organisation and how it links with regional and national centres of power (Enge and Whiteford, 1989). This is not to reify culture, power or politics as unchangeable and inescapable realities, cast in concrete or fixed in genes, but to acknowledge the persistance of political and cultural patterns in human behaviour, as well as the cÜfferentiation and heterogeneity in relations of power.…”
Section: The Findings Of Vargasmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Communities cannot be treated as static, rule-bound wholes, since they are composed of people who actively monitor, interpret and shape the world around them (e.g., Long and van der Ploeg, 1989;Long and Long, 1992). Linking agency and structure emphasises how structures, rules and norms emerge as products of people's practices and actions, both intended and unintended.…”
Section: Interrogating Assumptions In Community-based Natural Re-sourmentioning
confidence: 99%