{"product_id":"differentiating-development-beyond-an-anthropology-of-critique-9781782386742","title":"Differentiating Development: Beyond an","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tOver 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, the book demonstrates how the ethnographic study of development challenges anthropology to rethink its own assumptions and methods. In particular, contributors focus on the important but often overlooked relationship between acting and understanding, in ways that speak to debates about the role of anthropologists and academics in the wider world. The case studies presented are from a diverse range of geographical and ethnographic contexts, from Melanesia to Africa and Latin America, and ethnographic research is combined with commentary and reflection from the foremost scholars in the field.\u003c\/p\u003e\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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