Hope and Insufficiency : : Capacity Building in Ethnographic Comparison /

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

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 setting...

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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]
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Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (180 p.)
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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

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