​Reviews of Implementing Inequality

Cover of the book, Implementing Inequality with a cover image of hands of development workers collaborating on a paper plan.

​-G.M. Massey, emeritus, University of Wyoming, in Choice Reviews

Implementing Inequality is a rare book that comes alive in the best tradition of ethnographic description while building solid theory. Peters’ rich account humanizes people in the ‘implementariat’ and their daily challenges, struggles, and decisions. Ultimately hopeful, Implementing Inequality reminds us that frontline workers are already policymakers whose experience can guide a still-possible transformative development.

Mark Schuller, Northern Illinois University

This is a timely and well-judged analysis of the ‘internal inequalities’ that exist at the heart of the project of international development. In a thoughtful and highly readable account of a governance program in Angola, Rebecca Warne Peters combines original theoretical insights with careful empirical analysis.

David Lewis, London School of Economics

Peters emphasises the need for a thorough examination of the practices within development organisations if decolonisation initiatives are to be successful. Implementing Inequality
 is a useful read for both students and development professionals.

-Madiha Zeb Sadiq in the LSE Review of Books

Other Reviews

Die Zentrale sagt, wie es geht by Moritz Elliesen in Welt-Sichten (in German)