An Anthropological Critique Of Development
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An Anthropological Critique of Development
Author | : Mark Hobart |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 380 |
Release | : 2002-05-03 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781134896318 |
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Questioning the utopian image of western knowledge as a uniquely successful achievement in its application to economic and social development, this provocative volume, the latest in the EIDOS series, argues that it is unacceptable to dismiss problems encountered by development projects as the inadequate implementation of knowledge. Rather, it suggests that failures stem from the constitution of knowledge and its object. By focussing on the ways in which agency in development is attributed to experts, thereby turning previously active participants into passive subjects or ignorant objects, the contributors claim that the hidden agenda to the aims of educating and improving the lives of those in the undeveloped world falls little short of perpetuating ignorance.
An Anthropological Critique of Development
Author | : Mark Hobart |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 235 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : OCLC:948589581 |
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Differentiating Development
Author | : Soumhya Venkatesan,Thomas Yarrow |
Publsiher | : Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | : 259 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780857453037 |
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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, 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.
An Anthropological Critique of Development
Author | : Mark Hobart |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 2002-05-03 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9781134896325 |
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Challenges the utopian view of Western knowledge as uniquely successful in its application to economic and social development. The contributors offer an enthographic critique using case studies from Europe, Africa, Asia and Latin America.
Differentiating Development
Author | : Soumhya Venkatesan,Thomas Yarrow |
Publsiher | : Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 2012-04-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780857453044 |
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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, 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.
Encountering Development
Author | : Arturo Escobar |
Publsiher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780691150451 |
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Originally published: 1995. Paperback reissue, with a new preface by the author.
Anthropology and Development
Author | : Jean-Pierre Oliver De-Sardan |
Publsiher | : Zed Books Ltd. |
Total Pages | : 267 |
Release | : 2013-07-18 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781848136137 |
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This book re-establishes the relevance of mainstream anthropological (and sociological) approaches to development processes and simultaneously recognizes that contemporary development ought to be anthropology‘s principal area of study. Professor de Sardan argues for a socio-anthropology of change and development that is a deeply empirical, multidimensional, diachronic study of social groups and their interactions. The Introduction provides a thought-provoking examination of the principal new approaches that have emerged in the discipline during the 1990s. Part I then makes clear the complexity of social change and development, and the ways in which socio-anthropology can measure up to the challenge of this complexity. Part II looks more closely at some of the leading variables involved in the development process, including relations of production; the logics of social action; the nature of knowledge; forms of mediation; and ‘political‘ strategies.
Development Anthropology
Author | : Glynn Cochrane |
Publsiher | : New York : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 152 |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : UOM:39015002694407 |
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Monograph on the changing role of the sociologist (anthropologist) - argues that applied social and cultural anthropology has made little impact on other disciplines and professions and suggests that development anthropologists should cultivate a wider understanding of the political aspects, legal aspects, agricultural aspects, etc., of social change. Bibliography pp. 115 to 122.