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Development Brokers And Translators: The Ethnography of Aid And Agencies - Softcover

 
9781565492172: Development Brokers And Translators: The Ethnography of Aid And Agencies
Softcover
ISBN 10: 156549217X ISBN 13: 9781565492172
Verlag: Kumarian Press, 2006

Inhaltsangabe

The success of any international development agency depends on an understanding of the ways in which a community and individuals relate to ideas and resources. David Lewis and David Mosse have brought together a number of anthropologists with practical experience in development to show how ethnography can be an indispensable tool for understanding these complex and dynamic relationships. The world that this ethnography of development reveals does not divide neatly into the developers and the developed, perpetrators and victims, domination and resistance, or the incompatible rationalities of scientific and indigenous knowledge. It is a world in which interests and practices are always hybrids and in which rational policy representations frequently conceal the messiness of practice that precedes the ideas and technologies of development. The wealth of new ideas offered in this collection will be especially valuable to graduate students in anthropology and development studies, but also to undergraduates and those working in development organizations who wish to run more effective operations on every level.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

David Lewis is Reader in Social Policy at the London School of Economics and has published mainly on development policy issues in South Asia. David Mosse is Reader in Social Anthropology at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.

Aus dem Klappentext

* Includes essays by some of today s leading anthropologists working in development studies.* Furthers the goals of both poverty reduction and ethnographic research by detailing their contributions to and reliance on each another.* Provides a practical and theoretical resource for development agencies, policy makers, and students wishing to access a variety of case studies and new analytical approaches.The success of any international development agency depends on an understanding of the ways in which a community and individuals relate to ideas and resources. David Lewis and David Mosse have brought together a number of anthropologists with practical experience in development to show how ethnography can be an indispensable tool for understanding these complex and dynamic relationships.The world that this ethnography of development reveals does not divide neatly into the developers and the developed, perpetrators and victims, domination and resistance, or the incompatible rationalities of scientific and indigenous knowledge. It is a world in which interests and practices are always hybrids, where the realms of reason and the real world are not neatly separate, and in which rational policy representations frequently conceal the messiness of practice that precedes the ideas and technologies of development. The wealth of new ideas offered in this collection will be especially valuable to graduate students in anthropology and development studies, but also to undergraduates and those working in development organizations who wish to run more effective operations on every level.

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Verlag
Kumarian Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2006
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
156549217X
ISBN 13 
9781565492172
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
251
Herausgeber
Lewis David, Mosse David
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