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Differentiating development : beyond an anthropology of critique / edited by Soumhya Venkatesan and Thomas Yarrow.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Applied anthropology.
- Rural development.
- Community development.
- International agencies.
- International relations.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (258 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Berghahn Books, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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, th
- Contents:
- pt. 1. Anthropology and development reconsidered
- pt. 2. Enacting development
- pt. 3. Doing and knowing
- pt. 4. The promise of progress
- pt. 5. Forms and effects.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613591777
- 9781280496547
- 1280496541
- 9780857453044
- 0857453041
- OCLC:
- 797916746
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