Cashgate 25
Development
as convolving westernisation and affluence 140
as incompatible with moral economy 12
‘do development’ 4 , 9 , 20 , 34 , 40 , 45 , 50 , 53 , 54 , 142
‘dreams of development’ 101
imagined ‘West’ 34
moral value 21
Development as entrenching rather than challenging traditional hierarchies 131
Development-villager dichotomy 117
Disjuncture between villagers and development professionals 120
Education
and intra-household power dynamics 74
and resource transfer 63
and wealth 73
displays of 61
locally embedded value 69
westernization and development 66
women’s claims to be educated 74
Education and volunteering 70
Employment 22
Folk modernity/folk development 12
Gerontocratic hierarchy 27
Incompatibility between tradition and development 120
Intra-community power-dynamics 59
Intra-family hierarchy 61
Intra-family resource claims 60
Malawi
chieftaincy structure 87
Malawian schooling system 26 , 60 , 61 , 64 , 74 , 78 , 125 , 143
health and wellbeing outcomes 64
inequality 65
pedagodgy 67
scholastic outcomes 65
Mbwezi 1 , 19 , 31 , 36 , 39 , 40 , 50 , 52 , 53 , 54 , 55 , 56 , 57 , 58 , 69 , 71 , 76 , 83 , 91 , 92 , 93 , 94 , 95 , 102 , 107 , 108 , 109 , 110 , 111 , 112 , 113 , 114 , 117 , 126 , 127 , 128 , 129 , 131 , 132 , 135 , 136 , 148
Mbwezi Day 51
Mphala 44
NGO presence 11 , 40 , 61
English mastery 143
in claims to be educated 75
intra-community resource claims 55
intra-household resource claims 74
in women’s claims to be ‘educated’ 77
NGO s
as causal agents 10
as cementing intra-community hierarchies 139
as primary causal agents 10
as resource providers 25
in women’s claims to be educated 74
NGO staff-donor relations 102
Nyasaland 23
President Muluzi 88
Public and hidden transcripts 45
Village ethnography 6
Village Headmen
.
see development subjectivities
;
see Chieftaincy
;
see Malawi:chieftaincy structure
administrative role 5
dividing development resources 28
Volunteer
as identity, subjectivity and lifeworld 121 , 122 , 124 , 135 , 138 , 139 , 145
as reconciling incompatability between tradition and modernity 120
as reconciling the disjunture between development and tradition 133
as subsidising international development 145
dividing NGO resources 126
Volunteering
as challenging intra-community hierarchies 124
as contested social status 124
as entrenching developer-villager dichotomy 138
as guiding development resources 134
as identity, personhood, subjectivity 136
as intra-community label 127
as intra-community resource transfer 136
as paid labour 99
as reconciling the relationship between development and tradition 125
as subsidised by families and communities 131
contested meanings 96
costs for family and community 123
guiding NGO s resources 122
hierarchy of volunteers 123
material rewards 122
paid labour 126
reconciling development and tradition 130
Witchcraft 97