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Studies in Qualitative Methodology
Negotiating Boundaries and Borders
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Matt Smith
Matt Smith
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Emerald Group Publishing Limited
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8
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1016/S1042-3192(2007)8
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978-1-84950-395-2
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978-0-76231-283-2
Series ISSN:
1042-3192
Publication date:
2007
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When Things are not as they Seem: Untangling the Webs of a South-Indian NGO

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James Staples
James Staples
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James Staples
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2006
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    2007
© Emerald Group Publishing Limited
2006

[L]ife has become increasingly dangerous in the erratically moving river. The relatively closed circles of development agents may turn into dangerous vortices. Promises are empty, concrete practices of implementation lose their meaning. All of a sudden everything seems to be in a mess, and any kind of order seems to have been lost. (Quarles van Ufford, 1999, p. 292)

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