Differentiating Development : : Beyond an Anthropology of Critique /

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

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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 ab...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (258 p.)
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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

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