Differentiating Development : : Beyond an Anthropology of Critique / / ed. by Soumhya Venkatesan, Thomas Yarrow.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Baviskar, Amita,; Das, Veena,; Englund, Harri,; Friedman, John T.,; Gledhill, John,; Green, Maia,; Hita, Maria Gabriela,; Jensen, Casper Bruun,; Jiménez, Alberto Corsín,; Kelly, Ann,; Long, Norman,; Mathur, Nayanika,; Mol, Annemarie,; Obeid, Michelle,; Rousseau, Benedicta,; Taylor, John P.,; Trundle, Catherine,; Venkatesan, Soumhya,; Winthereik, Brit Ross,; Yarrow, Thomas,
• HerausgeberIn: Venkatesan, Soumhya,; Yarrow, Thomas,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2012]; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (258 p.)

Over the last two decades, anthropological studies have highlighted the problems of ‘development’ as a discursive regime, arguing that such initiatives are paradoxically used to consolidate inequality and perpetuate poverty. This volume constitutes a timely intervention in anthropological debates about development, moving beyond the critical stance to focus on development as a mode of engagement that, like anthropology, attempts to understand, represent and work within a complex world. By setting out to elucidate both the similarities and differences between these epistemological endeavors, the book demonstrates how the ethnographic study of development challenges anthropology to rethink its own assumptions and methods. In particular, contributors focus on the important but often overlooked relationship between acting and understanding, in ways that speak to debates about the role of anthropologists and academics in the wider world. The case studies presented are from a diverse range of geographical and ethnographic contexts, from Melanesia to Africa and Latin America, and ethnographic research is combined with commentary and reflection from the foremost scholars in the field.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- Anthropology and Development: Critical Framings -- PART I Anthropology and Development Reconsidered -- CHAPTER 1 On Text and Con-text Towards an Anthropology in Development -- CHAPTER 2 Framing and Escaping: Contrasting Aspects of Knowledge Work in International Development and Anthropology -- CHAPTER 3 Intersection Economies of Knowledge -- PART II Enacting Development -- CHAPTER 4 The Progress of the Project Scientific Traction in The Gambia -- CHAPTER 5 Recursive Partnerships in Global Development Aid -- CHAPTER 6 Intersection: A Gift Back – The Village and Research -- PART III Doing and Knowing -- CHAPTER 7 Beyond an Anthropology of ‘the Urban Poor’ Rethinking Peripheral Urban Social Situations in Brazil -- CHAPTER 8 Extraordinary Violence and Everyday Welfare: The State and Development in Rural and Urban India -- CHAPTER 9 Intersection: The Anthropology of Development and the Development of Anthropology -- PART IV The Promise of Progress -- CHAPTER 10 Development, Participation and Political Ideology in a Lebanese Town -- CHAPTER 11 Kastom Ekonomi and the Subject of Self-Reliance: Differentiating Development in Vanuatu -- CHAPTER 12 Intersection: Modes of Modernity -- PART V Forms and Effects -- CHAPTER 13 Effecting Development: Bureaucratic Knowledges, Cynicism, and the Desire for Development -- CHAPTER 14 The Transformation of Compassion and the Ethics of Interaction within Charity Practices -- CHAPTER 15 Intersection: The Art of Balance, or Else . . . -- CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX