Erin Beck: 2 books
How Development Projects Persist
Everyday Negotiations with Guatemalan NGOs
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
In How Development Projects Persist Erin Beck examines microfinance NGOs working in Guatemala and problematizes the accepted wisdom of how NGOs function. Drawing on twenty months of ethnographic fieldwork, she shows how development models and plans become entangled in the relationships among local...
Talking Walls and Cigarettes
And Other Dark Tales
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
A bartender still grieving the tragic death of her brother, shunning from her family, and the whispers in the street is visited by a man who appears out of thin air to offer her a way out of her own personal hell in The Salesman. A poor family is cursed by a mysterious old man in the woods and the children...