La gestion amphibie

Zúñiga, Ricardo

doi:10.7202/1034251ar

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“…Mintzberg and Srinivas (2010) distinguish ‘doers’ from ‘helpers’ as follows: doers are local insiders, while helpers are cosmopolitan outsiders. Zúñiga (1988) has described as ‘amphibious management’ the in-house struggle between the doers – professionals who have been recruited from among those ostracized for their political positions – and the helpers – highly qualified public figures who take it upon themselves to ensure collective survival through grants and international aid.…”

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Evaluations, international agencies and censorship: A field doer’s viewpoint

Laperrière

2014

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This article presents a radically empirical and descriptive account of the most often neglected viewpoint: that of the 'doer'. Using field autoethnographic examples from remote Northern Brazil, the article portrays the clash between the universalistic programs of international agencies and doer perspective at the fieldwork level. The see-judge-act tool helped to chart the heuristic field of daily life as a reflective practice. Three moments illustrate the confrontation of the action planned: (a) a projection of abstract theoretical assumptions based on a universalistic framework; (b) a silent period of accommodation of local realities to the imposed, descending logic of the formal discourse; and (c) the production of an exportable version of the partially hidden local situation. All three moments show the struggles to make the 'doer viewpoint' communicable beyond the local geographic region. In the end, fieldwork dangers were censored and inconsistencies were evened-out.

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confidence: 99%