{"product_id":"differentiating-development-beyond-an-anthropology-of-critique-9780857453037","title":"Differentiating Development Beyond an","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOver 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \t“\u003cem\u003eThe themes and styles are refreshingly diverse but all the contributors remind us that what many development scholars and policy-makers downgrade as ‘context’ – history, ways of making meaning, political disputes – are often central to explaining development practice…[This book] not only implies the need for a classificatory rethink, which has been widely recognized for decades, but also gives us the ethnographic material to see how fruitful a more concerted anthropology of development in Europe could be.\u003c\/em\u003e” \u003cstrong\u003e ·  \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“…offers an interesting and important read in making sense of what seems to have become a somewhat uneasy relationship between anthropology and development... [The volume] should be applauded for putting increased emphasis on ethnography and agency by showing how these constitute a critical hope that both post-development and anthropology will contribute to and be relevant for development. It seeks not only to describe and analyze but, more importantly, to revamp critically how anthropology as a discipline engages the field of development.”\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cb\u003e  ·  Social Analysis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t“\u003cem\u003eThis is a book whose time is overdue…It is a welcome addition to a burgeoning field of anthropological studies in which development plays a part, a book that will be widely read and appreciated\u003c\/em\u003e…\u003cem\u003e[It is]sophisticated, relevant, sufficiently up to date and interesting in the way in which it framed the new forms that anthropological engagement with development might take.\u003c\/em\u003e” \u003cstrong\u003e ·  \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAndrea Cornwall\u003c\/strong\u003e, University of Sussex\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eIntroduction.\u003c\/strong\u003e Anthropology and Development: critical framings\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eThomas Yarrow and Soumhya Venkatesan\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003ePart I: Anthropology and Development reconsidered\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 1.\u003c\/strong\u003e On Text and Con-text: toward an anthropology in development\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eJohn Friedman\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 2.\u003c\/strong\u003e Framing and Escaping: Contrasting Aspects of Knowledge Work in International Development an Anthropology\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eMaia Green\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eIntersection 1:\u003c\/strong\u003e Economies of Knowledge\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eVeena Das\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003ePart II: Enacting Development\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 3.\u003c\/strong\u003e The Progress of the Project: Scientific Traction in the Gambia\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eAnn Kelly\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 4.\u003c\/strong\u003e Recursive partnerships in global development aid\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eCasper Bruun Jansen and Brit Ross Winthereik\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eIntersection 2:\u003c\/strong\u003e A Gift Back: the village and research\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eAnnmarie Mol\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003ePart III: Doing and Knowing\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 5.\u003c\/strong\u003e Beyond an Anthropology of ‘the Urban Poor’: rethinking peripheral urban social situations in Brazil\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eJohn Gledhill and Maria Gabriela Hita\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 6.\u003c\/strong\u003e Extraordinary Violence and Everyday Welfare: The State and Development in Rural and Urban India\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eAmita Baviskar\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eIntersection 3:\u003c\/strong\u003e the anthropology of development and the development of anthropology\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eHarri Englund \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003ePart IV: the Promise of Progress\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 7.\u003c\/strong\u003e Development, Participation, and Political Ideology in a Lebanese Town\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eMichelle Obeid\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 8.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem\u003eKastom Ekonomi\u003c\/em\u003e and the Subject of Self-Reliance: differentiating development in Vanuatu\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eJohn P. 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