{"product_id":"adventures-in-aidland-the-anthropology-of-professionals-in-international-development-9781782380634","title":"Adventures in Aidland: The Anthropology of","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tAnthropological 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 construction and transmission of knowledge about global poverty and its reduction but is equally interested in the social life of development professionals, in the capacity of ideas to mediate relationships, in networks of experts and communities of aid workers, and in the dilemmas of maintaining professional identities. Going well beyond obsolete debates about ‘pure’ and ‘applied’ anthropology, the book examines the transformations that occur as social scientific concepts and practices cross and re-cross the boundary between anthropological and policy making knowledge.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \t“\u003cem\u003eLaden with personal accounts and experiences of the development industry and its exclusive processes of knowledge production and circulation, \u003c\/em\u003eAdventures in Aidland\u003cem\u003eis an invaluable contribution to the study and practice of development. The realities presented in Mosse’s collection will enrich the education of socio-cultural anthropology students, particularly those considering research on organisations that operate in the industry of global poverty. The social, economic and political shortfalls of professionalism, as they are laid out in the book, make it exceptionally relevant to anthropological  work in development, heralding new directions for its scope and impact in the design of policy to reduce global poverty.\u003c\/em\u003e”\u003cstrong\u003e  ·  Durham Anthropology Journal\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t“\u003cem\u003eThe contributions are framed by a brief, but rich introductory chapter that contextualizes the anthropology of professional expert knowledge. The volume is concluded by a wonderful (in several meanings), entertaining essay by Raymond Apthorpe.\u003c\/em\u003e”\u003cstrong\u003e  ·  Forum for Development Studies\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t“\u003cem\u003eBy denying developing countries cultural specificity, aid agencies can arrogantly perpetuate their own insularity. This is fascinating and underexplored territory for anthropologists and development theorists alike, making this an important collection.\u003c\/em\u003e”\u003cstrong\u003e  ·  Times Literary Supplement\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t“\u003cem\u003eThemes are…consistently woven throughout the book, particularly ethnographic approaches considering mechanisms by which expert knowledge is transmitted…This book fills a gap in the consideration of expert knowledge and its application to consultancy that has not been addressed since Morris and Bastin (2004)\u003c\/em\u003e.”  \u003cb\u003e·  \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAnthropological Forum\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tList of Contributors\u003cbr\u003e \tPreface and Acknowledgements\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 1.\u003c\/b\u003e Introduction: The Anthropology of Expertise and Professionals in International Development\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eDavid Mosse\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 2.\u003c\/b\u003e Calculating Compassion: Accounting for Some Categorical Practices in International Development\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eMaia Green\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 3.\u003c\/b\u003e Rendering Society Technical: Government Through Community and the Ethnographic Turn at the World Bank in Indonesia\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eTania Murray Li\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 4.\u003c\/b\u003e Social Analysis as Corporate Product: Non-Economists\/Anthropologists at Work at the World Bank in Washington DC\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eDavid Mosse\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 5.\u003c\/b\u003e The World Bank's Expertise: Observant Participation in the World Development Report 2006, Equity and Development\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eDesmond McNeill\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eAsun Lera St.Clair\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 6.\u003c\/b\u003e World Health and Nepal: Producing Internationals, Healthy Citizenship and the Cosmopolitan\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eIan Harper\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 7.\u003c\/b\u003e The Sociality of International Aid and Policy Convergence\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eRosalind Eyben\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 8.\u003c\/b\u003e Parochial Cosmopolitanism and the Power of Nostalgia\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eDinah Rajak\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eJock Stirrat\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 9.\u003c\/b\u003e Tidy Concepts, Messy Lives: Defining Tensions in the Domestic and Overseas Careers of UK Non-governmental Professionals\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eDavid Lewis\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 10.\u003c\/b\u003e Coda: Alice in Aidland, A Seriously Satirical Allegory\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eRaymond Apthorpe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \tBibliography\u003cbr\u003e \tIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Berghahn Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042210021719,"sku":"9781782380634","price":23.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781782380634.jpg?v=1750953455","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/adventures-in-aidland-the-anthropology-of-professionals-in-international-development-9781782380634","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}