Anthropology and Development: Culture, Morality and Politics in a Globalised Wor,Emma Crewe

-About this book

In recent decades international development has grown into a world-shaping industry. But how do aid agencies work and what do they achieve? How does aid appear to the adults and children who receive it? And why has there been so little improvement in the position of the poor? Viewing aid and development from anthropological perspectives gives illuminating answers to questions such as these. This essential textbook reveals anthropologists’ often surprising findings and details ethnographic case studies on the cultures of development. The authors use a fertile literature to examine the socio-political organisation of aid communities, agencies and networks, as well as the judgements they make about each other. The everyday practice of development work is about negotiating power and culture, but in vastly different ways in different contexts and for different social groups. Exploring the spaces between policy and practice, success and failure, the future and the past, this book provides a rounded understanding of development work that suggests new moral and political possibilities for an increasingly globalised world.

-Contents
List of acronyms p
Preface and acknowledgements
1-Introduction: hope and despair
Development as easy
Development as modernity
Development as control
Development as empowerment
Development as discourse
moving beyond discourse
Aims of this book: complicating development and
simplifying anthropology
The themes and structure of this book
Challenging questions arising from this chapter
2-Anthropologists engaged
Early beginnings: anthropology and colonialism
From academic purity to dirty engagement
Problems of engagement: compromise and complicity
The crisis of modernity and the postmodern turn
Beyond the impasse: anthropology in and of development
Old ethical problems and new dilemmas
Challenging questions arising from this chapter
3-The social and political organisation of aid and development
labelling places and people
Governments, states and global institutions
Non-state agencies and actors
The governance of aid in transition
Global partnership: them and us
Organisational boundaries
Challenging questions arising from this chapter
4-The elusive poor
Defining and measuring poverty
Class and gender
money, culture and happiness
The politics of identity and politics in identity
Challenging questions arising from this chapter

5-Human rights and cultural fantasies
The universality of human rights
Rights and childhood
Rights and community
Complex rights and creative claims
Challenging questions arising from this chapter
6-Hierarchies of knowledge
Science and the promise of modernity
Technology development, exchange or destruction
The social and cultural consumption of technology
Alternative approaches to technology
Knowledge and power
Challenging questions arising from this chapter
7-The moralities of production and exchange
The pure and natural market
The view from the farmer’s field
One market or many?
The view from the banker’s window
Socialising the economic: alternative approaches to trade
multiple markets for exchange
Challenging questions arising from this chapter
8-The politics of policy and practice
Taming the unruly
Good politics and bad policy
Displacement in time and space
Forced displacement
Challenging questions arising from this chapter
9-Imagining the future
The spaces between
Anthropology and development
Appendix: challenging questions arising
from this book
Notes
References

-caractéristiques

Date de parution :13 mai 2019

Éditeur : Lexington Books  

Langue : Anglais

NB.de pages: 186 pages

ISBN-10 : 1498589081

ISBN-13 : 978-1498589086

Poids de l’article : 454 g

Dimensions : 15.88 x 2.03 x 23.27 cm