Hope and Insufficiency : : Capacity Building in Ethnographic Comparison / / ed. by Justin Shaffner, Rachel Douglas-Jones.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2021
• MitwirkendeR: Ballestero, Andrea,; Boulding, Harriet,; Bruun Jensen, Casper,; Douglas-Jones, Rachel,; Ellison, Susan,; Hewlett, Christopher,; Kalesnikava, Viktoryia,; La Hatte, Kristin,; Macintyre, Martha,; Mentore, George,; Shaffner, Justin,
• HerausgeberIn: Douglas-Jones, Rachel,; Shaffner, Justin,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (180 p.)

A process through which skills, knowledge, and resources are expanded, capacity building, remains a tantalizing and pervasive concept throughout the field of anthropology, though it has received little in the way of critical analysis. By exploring the concept’s role in a variety of different settings including government lexicons, religious organizations, environmental campaigns, biomedical training, and fieldwork from around the globe, Hope and Insufficiency seeks to question the histories, assumptions, intentions, and enactments that have led to the ubiquity of capacity building, thereby developing a much-needed critical purchase on its persuasive power.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of illustrations -- Preface . Verbal Sophisms and Problems with Capacity Building -- Introduction . Capacity Building in Ethnographic Comparison -- Chapter 1 . Professionalizing Persons and Foretelling Futures: Capacity Building in Post-Earthquake Haiti -- Chapter 2 . Capacity as Aggregation: Promises, Water and a Form of Collective Care in Northeast Brazil -- Chapter 3 . Building Capacity in Ethical Review: Compliance and Transformation in the Asia-Pacific Region -- Chapter 4 . Corrective Capacities: From Unruly Politics to Democratic Capacitación -- Chapter 5 . Capacity Building as Instrument and Empowerment: Training Health Workers for Community-Based Roles in Ghana -- Chapter 6 . Personal and Professional Encompassment in Organizational Capacity Building: SOS Children’s Villages and Supportive Housing -- Chapter 7 . Community Capacity Building: Transforming Amerindian Sociality in Peruvian Amazonia -- Chapter 8 . ‘Integrating Human to Quality’: Capacity Building across Cambodian Worlds -- Afterword . Measurable Subjectivities and Discoverable Worlds -- Index