Title: Adventures in Aidland : the anthropology of professionals in international development
Abstract: List of Contributors Preface and Acknowledgements Chapter 1. Introduction: The Anthropology of Expertise and Professionals in International Development David Mosse Chapter 2. Calculating Compassion: Accounting for Some Categorical Practices in International Development Maia Green Chapter 3. Rendering Society Technical: Government Through Community and the Ethnographic Turn at the World Bank in Indonesia Tania Murray Li Chapter 4. Social Analysis as Corporate Product: Non-Economists/Anthropologists at Work at the World Bank in Washington DC David Mosse Chapter 5. The World Bank's Expertise: Observant Participation in the World Development Report 2006, Equity and Development Desmond McNeill and Asun Lera St.Clair Chapter 6. World Health and Nepal: Producing Internationals, Healthy Citizenship and the Cosmopolitan Ian Harper Chapter 7. The Sociality of International Aid and Policy Convergence Rosalind Eyben Chapter 8. Parochial Cosmopolitanism and the Power of Nostalgia Dinah Rajak and Jock Stirrat Chapter 9. Tidy Concepts, Messy Lives: Defining Tensions in the Domestic and Overseas Careers of UK Non-governmental Professionals David Lewis Chapter 10. Coda: Alice in Aidland, A Seriously Satirical Allegory Raymond Apthorpe Bibliography Index
Publication Year: 2011
Publication Date: 2011-01-01
Language: en
Type: book
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