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Adventures in Aidland : the anthropology of professionals in international development /

Anthropological interest in new subjects of research and contemporary knowledge practices has turned ethnographic attention to a wide ranging variety of professional fields. Among these the encounter with international development has perhaps been longer and more intimate than any of the others. Ant...

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Cote:Libro Electrónico
Autres auteurs: Mosse, David (Éditeur intellectuel)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: New York : Berghahn Books, ©2011.
Collection:Studies in public and applied anthropology ; v. 6.
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Table des matières:
  • Calculating compassion : accounting for some categorical practices in international development / Maia Green
  • Rendering society technical : government through community and the ethnographic turn at the World Bank in Indonesia / Tania Murray Li
  • Social analysis as corporate product : non-economists/anthropologists at work at the World Bank in Washington, D.C. / David Mosse
  • The World Banks' expertise : observant participation in the world development report 2006, equity and development / Desmond McNeill and Asuncion Lera St. Clair
  • World health and Nepal : producing internationals, healthy citizenship and the cosmopolitan / Ian Harper
  • The sociality of international aid and policy convergence / Rosalind Eyben
  • Parochial cosmopolitanism and the power of nostalgia / Dinah Rajak and Jock Stirrat
  • Tidy concepts, messy lives : defining tensions in the domestic and overseas careers of U.K. non-governmental professionals / David Lewis
  • Coda : with Alice in Aidland : a seriously satirical allegory / Raymond Apthorpe.