Description
Book Synopsis A process through which skills, knowledge, and resources are expanded, capacity building, remains a tantalizing and pervasive concept throughout the field of anthropology, though it has received little in the way of critical analysis. By exploring the concept’s role in a variety of different settings including government lexicons, religious organizations, environmental campaigns, biomedical training, and fieldwork from around the globe, Hope and Insufficiency seeks to question the histories, assumptions, intentions, and enactments that have led to the ubiquity of capacity building, thereby developing a much-needed critical purchase on its persuasive power.
Table of Contents List of illustrations
Preface: Verbal Sophisms and Problems with Capacity Building
Martha Macintyre
Introduction: Capacity Building in Ethnographic Comparison
Rachel Douglas-Jones and Justin Shaffner
Chapter 1. Professionalizing Persons and Foretelling Futures: Capacity Building in Post-Earthquake Haiti
Kristin LaHatte
Chapter 2. Capacity as Aggregation: Promises, Water and a Form of Collective Care in Northeast Brazil
Andrea Ballestero
Chapter 3. Building Capacity in Ethical Review: Compliance and Transformation in the Asia-Pacific Region
Rachel Douglas-Jones
Chapter 4. Corrective Capacities: From Unruly Politics to Democratic Capacitación
Susan Ellison
Chapter 5. Capacity Building as Instrument and Empowerment: Training Health Workers for Community-Based Roles in Ghana
Harriet Boulding
Chapter 6. Personal and Professional Encompassment in Organizational Capacity Building: SOS Children’s Villages and Supportive Housing
Viktoryia Kalesnikava
Chapter 7. Community Capacity Building: Transforming Amerindian Sociality in Peruvian Amazonia
Christopher Hewlett
Chapter 8. ‘Integrating Human to Quality’: Capacity Building across Cambodian Worlds
Casper Bruun Jensen
