{"id":19456,"date":"2014-06-25T08:34:12","date_gmt":"2014-06-25T15:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csws.uoregon.edu\/?p=19456"},"modified":"2021-01-13T09:46:23","modified_gmt":"2021-01-13T17:46:23","slug":"csws-research-matters-spring-2014-erin-beck-guatemala-everyday-practices-experiences-development-womens-eyes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/csws-research-matters-spring-2014-erin-beck-guatemala-everyday-practices-experiences-development-womens-eyes\/","title":{"rendered":"CSWS Research Matters Spring 2014: Erin Beck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/docs\/publications\/ResearchMatters\/Spring_14_CSWS_RM.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-19457\" src=\"http:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/1406_CSWS_Research_Matters_Beck_cover-232x300.jpg\" alt=\"1406_CSWS_Research_Matters_Beck_cover\" width=\"232\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/1406_CSWS_Research_Matters_Beck_cover-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/1406_CSWS_Research_Matters_Beck_cover-116x150.jpg 116w, https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/1406_CSWS_Research_Matters_Beck_cover.jpg 290w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\" \/><strong>Spring 2014 <em>CSWS Research Matters<\/em><\/strong><\/a><strong>:<br \/>\n\u201cIn Guatemala: Everyday Practices and Experiences of Development through Women\u2019s Eyes,\u201d by Erin Beck, Assistant Professor, University of Oregon Department of Political Science<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Political science professor Erin Beck\u2019s ethnographic study of women in Guatemala who are enrolled in programs of non-governmental organizations with contrasting styles shows that \u201cdevelopment is an emergent process that is shaped by the interactions between \u2018developers\u2019 and their \u2018beneficiaries.\u2019\u201d<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>This two-page article about her research explores the experiences of two impoverished women, one enrolled in a program that \u201cfocuses on multifaceted (material and non-material) goals, hopes to transform markets, and seeks individual, family, and community-level changes with little concern for measurement and efficiency.\u201d And the other enrolled in a program that \u201cfocuses on material resources, leverages the market, and seeks individual-level changes alongside measurement and efficiency.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Professor Beck concludes: \u201cBy bringing ethnographies of development organizations and workers together with close analyses of development projects through their beneficiaries\u2019 eyes, my research reveals that \u2018developers\u2019 and \u2018beneficiaries,\u2019 each influenced by their own histories and experiences, interact to produce something not quite intended, but something that can be recast by various agents as success\u2014thus explaining the persistence of development projects despite roughly sixty years of evidence that indicates that development projects have failed to produce meaningful structural transformation.\u201d<br \/>\n<!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --><\/p>\n<div class=\"addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style \">\n<a class=\"addthis_button_preferred_1\"><\/a><br \/>\n<a class=\"addthis_button_preferred_2\"><\/a><br \/>\n<a class=\"addthis_button_preferred_3\"><\/a><br \/>\n<a class=\"addthis_button_preferred_4\"><\/a><br \/>\n<a class=\"addthis_button_compact\"><\/a><br \/>\n<a class=\"addthis_counter addthis_bubble_style\"><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/s7.addthis.com\/js\/250\/addthis_widget.js#pubid=ra-4e5e7058674d4fb8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- AddThis Button END --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spring 2014 CSWS Research Matters: \u201cIn Guatemala: Everyday Practices and Experiences of Development through Women\u2019s Eyes,\u201d by Erin Beck, Assistant Professor, University of Oregon Department of Political Science Political science professor Erin Beck\u2019s ethnographic study of women in Guatemala who&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/csws-research-matters-spring-2014-erin-beck-guatemala-everyday-practices-experiences-development-womens-eyes\/\">Read more 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