Adventures in Aidland - The Anthropology of Professionals in International Development (Paperback)

Anthropological 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.

General

Imprint:	Berghahn Books
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Studies in Public and Applied Anthropology
Release date:	March 2013
First published:	March 2013
Editors:	David Mosse
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 14mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	248
ISBN-13:	978-1-78238-063-4
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Development studies Books > Business & Economics > Economics > Development economics Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > General Promotions
LSN:	1-78238-063-9
Barcode:	9781782380634

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