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Differentiating Development Beyond an Anthropology of Critique

Venkatesan Soumhya Yarrow Thomas
Heftet / 2014 / Engelsk

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ISBN
9781782386742
Publisert
2014-09-01
Utgiver
Vendor
Berghahn Books
Vekt
354 gr
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Aldersnivå
UP, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
258

Redaktør
Venkatesan Soumhya
Yarrow Thomas

Biographical note

Soumhya Venkatesan lectures in Social Anthropology at the University of Manchester. She is the author of Craft Matters: Artisans, Development and the Indian Nation (Orient Blackswan 2009).

Differentiating Development Beyond an Anthropology of Critique

Venkatesan Soumhya Yarrow Thomas
Heftet / 2014 / Engelsk
Venkatesan Soumhya Yarrow Thomas
Heftet / 2014 / Engelsk
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“<em>The themes and styles are refreshingly diverse but all the contributors remind us that what many development scholars and policy-makers downgrade as ‘context’ – history, ways of making meaning, political disputes – are often central to explaining development practice…[This book] not only implies the need for a classificatory rethink, which has been widely recognized for decades, but also gives us the ethnographic material to see how fruitful a more concerted anthropology of development in Europe could be.</em>” <strong> ·  </strong><strong>Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute</strong></p>
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<em>“…offers an interesting and important read in making sense of what seems to have become a somewhat uneasy relationship between anthropology and development... [The volume] should be applauded for putting increased emphasis on ethnography and agency by showing how these constitute a critical hope that both post-development and anthropology will contribute to and be relevant for development. It seeks not only to describe and analyze but, more importantly, to revamp critically how anthropology as a discipline engages the field of development.”</em><b>  ·  Social Analysis</b></p>
<p>
“<em>This is a book whose time is overdue…It is a welcome addition to a burgeoning field of anthropological studies in which development plays a part, a book that will be widely read and appreciated</em>…<em>[It is]sophisticated, relevant, sufficiently up to date and interesting in the way in which it framed the new forms that anthropological engagement with development might take.</em>” <strong> ·  </strong><strong>Andrea Cornwall</strong>, University of Sussex</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.
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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 about development...
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Introduction. Anthropology and Development: critical framings Thomas Yarrow and Soumhya Venkatesan Part I: Anthropology and Development reconsidered Chapter 1. On Text and Con-text: toward an anthropology in development John Friedman Chapter 2. Framing and Escaping: Contrasting Aspects of Knowledge Work in International Development an Anthropology Maia Green Intersection 1: Economies of Knowledge Veena Das Part II: Enacting Development Chapter 3. The Progress of the Project: Scientific Traction in the Gambia Ann Kelly Chapter 4. Recursive partnerships in global development aid Casper Bruun Jansen and Brit Ross Winthereik Intersection 2: A Gift Back: the village and research Annmarie Mol Part III: Doing and Knowing Chapter 5. Beyond an Anthropology of ‘the Urban Poor’: rethinking peripheral urban social situations in Brazil John Gledhill and Maria Gabriela Hita Chapter 6. Extraordinary Violence and Everyday Welfare: The State and Development in Rural and Urban India Amita Baviskar Intersection 3: the anthropology of development and the development of anthropology Harri Englund Part IV: the Promise of Progress Chapter 7. Development, Participation, and Political Ideology in a Lebanese Town Michelle Obeid Chapter 8. Kastom Ekonomi and the Subject of Self-Reliance: differentiating development in Vanuatu John P. Taylor and Benedicta Rousseau Intersection 4: Modes of modernity Norman Long Part V: Forms and Effects Chapter 9. Effecting Development and the Effects of Development: Bureaucratic Knowledges of Development in an Indian District Nayanika Mathur Chapter 10. The transformation of compassion and the ethics of interaction within charity practices Catherine Trundle Intersection 5: The art of balance, or else... Alberto Corsín Jiménez
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<p>
“<em>The themes and styles are refreshingly diverse but all the contributors remind us that what many development scholars and policy-makers downgrade as ‘context’ – history, ways of making meaning, political disputes – are often central to explaining development practice…[This book] not only implies the need for a classificatory rethink, which has been widely recognized for decades, but also gives us the ethnographic material to see how fruitful a more concerted anthropology of development in Europe could be.</em>” <strong> ·  </strong><strong>Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute</strong></p>
<p>
<em>“…offers an interesting and important read in making sense of what seems to have become a somewhat uneasy relationship between anthropology and development... [The volume] should be applauded for putting increased emphasis on ethnography and agency by showing how these constitute a critical hope that both post-development and anthropology will contribute to and be relevant for development. It seeks not only to describe and analyze but, more importantly, to revamp critically how anthropology as a discipline engages the field of development.”</em><b>  ·  Social Analysis</b></p>
<p>
“<em>This is a book whose time is overdue…It is a welcome addition to a burgeoning field of anthropological studies in which development plays a part, a book that will be widely read and appreciated</em>…<em>[It is]sophisticated, relevant, sufficiently up to date and interesting in the way in which it framed the new forms that anthropological engagement with development might take.</em>” <strong> ·  </strong><strong>Andrea Cornwall</strong>, University of Sussex</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.
Les mer
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...
Les mer
Introduction. Anthropology and Development: critical framings Thomas Yarrow and Soumhya Venkatesan Part I: Anthropology and Development reconsidered Chapter 1. On Text and Con-text: toward an anthropology in development John Friedman Chapter 2. Framing and Escaping: Contrasting Aspects of Knowledge Work in International Development an Anthropology Maia Green Intersection 1: Economies of Knowledge Veena Das Part II: Enacting Development Chapter 3. The Progress of the Project: Scientific Traction in the Gambia Ann Kelly Chapter 4. Recursive partnerships in global development aid Casper Bruun Jansen and Brit Ross Winthereik Intersection 2: A Gift Back: the village and research Annmarie Mol Part III: Doing and Knowing Chapter 5. Beyond an Anthropology of ‘the Urban Poor’: rethinking peripheral urban social situations in Brazil John Gledhill and Maria Gabriela Hita Chapter 6. Extraordinary Violence and Everyday Welfare: The State and Development in Rural and Urban India Amita Baviskar Intersection 3: the anthropology of development and the development of anthropology Harri Englund Part IV: the Promise of Progress Chapter 7. Development, Participation, and Political Ideology in a Lebanese Town Michelle Obeid Chapter 8. Kastom Ekonomi and the Subject of Self-Reliance: differentiating development in Vanuatu John P. Taylor and Benedicta Rousseau Intersection 4: Modes of modernity Norman Long Part V: Forms and Effects Chapter 9. Effecting Development and the Effects of Development: Bureaucratic Knowledges of Development in an Indian District Nayanika Mathur Chapter 10. The transformation of compassion and the ethics of interaction within charity practices Catherine Trundle Intersection 5: The art of balance, or else... Alberto Corsín Jiménez
Les mer

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781782386742
Publisert
2014-09-01
Utgiver
Vendor
Berghahn Books
Vekt
354 gr
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Aldersnivå
UP, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
258

Redaktør
Venkatesan Soumhya
Yarrow Thomas

Biographical note

Soumhya Venkatesan lectures in Social Anthropology at the University of Manchester. She is the author of Craft Matters: Artisans, Development and the Indian Nation (Orient Blackswan 2009).

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