Adventures in Aidland : the anthropology of professionals in international development / edited by David Mosse.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mosse, David.

Series:

Studies in public and applied anthropology ; v. 6.

Studies in public and applied anthropology ; v. 6

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Applied anthropology.

Economic development--Social aspects.

Economic development.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (248 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Berghahn Books, c2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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. Anthropologists have drawn critical attention to the interfaces and social effects of development's discursive regimes but, oddly enough, have paid scant attention to knowledge producers themselves, despite anthropologists being among them. This is the focus of this volume. It concerns the construct

Contents:

Adventures in Aidland; CONTENTS; PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; Chapter 1: INTRODUCTION; Chapter 2: CALCULATING COMPASSION; Chapter 3: RENDERING SOCIETY TECHNICAL; Chapter 4: SOCIAL ANALYSIS AS CORPORATE PRODUCT; Chapter 5: THE WORLD BANK'S EXPERTISE; Chapter 6: WORLD HEALTH AND NEPAL; Chapter 7: THE SOCIALITY OF INTERNATIONAL AIDAND POLICY CONVERGENCE; Chapter 8: PAROCHIAL COSMOPOLITANISM ANDTHE POWER OF NOSTALGIA; Chapter 9: TIDY CONCEPTS, MESSY LIVES; Chapter 10: CODA; NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-83695-996-6

1-78238-064-7

0-85745-111-1

OCLC:

733040251