The Misadventures of Alice in DevelopmentLand
Dispatches from an Insurgent Intern at the Grubby End of International Aid and Philanthropy
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I found myself laughing and wincing on every page. Through Alice’s journey, Doug Reeler turns development jargon, power games and measurement madness into something to examine, laugh at, and hopefully change. The book cuts to the truth and provokes hard questions about one’s own practice.
I found myself laughing and wincing on every page. Through Alice’s journey, Doug Reeler turns development jargon, power games and measurement madness into something to examine, laugh at, and hopefully change. The book cuts to the truth and provokes hard questions about one’s own practice.
Whatever your role in human development practice or thinking, you will find these extraordinarily well-written, evocative, and conceptually profound reflections, wonderfully mediated through Alice, inspiring, motivating and deeply relevant.
Whatever your role in human development practice or thinking, you will find these extraordinarily well-written, evocative, and conceptually profound reflections, wonderfully mediated through Alice, inspiring, motivating and deeply relevant.
Doug Reeler’s writing is witty and engaging. I found myself smiling constantly while being jabbed repeatedly in the ribs as a player myself in DevelopmentLand. Behind the jest, deep truths.
Doug Reeler’s writing is witty and engaging. I found myself smiling constantly while being jabbed repeatedly in the ribs as a player myself in DevelopmentLand. Behind the jest, deep truths.
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About the Author
Doug Reeler
I have been navigating the currents of civil society since 1985, working mostly as an organisation development practitioner from Cape Town, supporting civil society organisations near and far. For twenty-two years I called the Community Development Resource Association (CDRA) home, the very place where Alice and the White Rabbit first slipped into the fray in 2003 in an unruly piece called "If You Meet the White Rabbit on the Road, Steal His Watch". She has been muttering and making notes from the wings ever since. Until now.
Today, my OD practice continues with Tamarind Tree Associates. I also work with the Barefoot Guide Connection, where we facilitate reflective writing and collegial learning, and curate and find ways to share the hard and beautiful stories, and wisdom, of social change leaders and practitioners worldwide.