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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.
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.
This Handbook offers an overview of the thriving and diverse field
of anthropological studies of technology. It features 39 original
chapters, each reviewing the state of the art of current research
and enlivening the field of study through ethnographic analysis of
human-technology interfaces, forms of social organisation,
technological practices and/or systems of belief and meaning in
different parts of the world. The Handbook is organised around some
of the most important characteristics of anthropological studies of
technology today: the diverse knowledge practices that technologies
involve and on which they depend; the communities, collectives, and
categories that emerge around technologies; anthropology’s
contribution to proliferating debates on ethics, values, and
morality in relation to technology; and infrastructures that
highlight how all technologies are embedded in broader political
economies and socio-historical processes that shape and often
reinforce inequality and discrimination while also generating
diversity. All chapters share a commitment to human experiences,
embodiments, practices, and materialities in the daily lives of
those people and institutions involved in the development,
manufacturing, deployment, and/or use of particular technologies.
Chapters 11 and 31 are available open access under a Creative
Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via
link.springer.com.
This Handbook offers an overview of the thriving and diverse field
of anthropological studies of technology. It features 39 original
chapters, each reviewing the state of the art of current research
and enlivening the field of study through ethnographic analysis of
human-technology interfaces, forms of social organisation,
technological practices and/or systems of belief and meaning in
different parts of the world. The Handbook is organised around some
of the most important characteristics of anthropological studies of
technology today: the diverse knowledge practices that technologies
involve and on which they depend; the communities, collectives, and
categories that emerge around technologies; anthropology's
contribution to proliferating debates on ethics, values, and
morality in relation to technology; and infrastructures that
highlight how all technologies are embedded in broader political
economies and socio-historical processes that shape and often
reinforce inequality and discrimination while also generating
diversity. All chapters share a commitment to human experiences,
embodiments, practices, and materialities in the daily lives of
those people and institutions involved in the development,
manufacturing, deployment, and/or use of particular technologies.
Chapters 11 and 31 are available open access under a Creative
Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via
link.springer.com.
C. L. R. James's The Black Jacobins remains one of the great works
of the twentieth century and the cornerstone of Haitian
revolutionary studies. In Making The Black Jacobins, Rachel Douglas
traces the genesis, transformation, and afterlives of James's
landmark work across the decades from the 1930s on. Examining the
1938 and 1963 editions of The Black Jacobins, the 1967 play of the
same name, and James's 1936 play, Toussaint Louverture-as well as
manuscripts, notes, interviews, and other texts-Douglas shows how
James continuously rewrote and revised his history of the Haitian
Revolution as his politics and engagement with Marxism evolved. She
also points to the vital significance theater played in James's
work and how it influenced his views of history. Douglas shows The
Black Jacobins to be a palimpsest, its successive layers of
rewriting renewing its call to new generations.
C. L. R. James's The Black Jacobins remains one of the great works
of the twentieth century and the cornerstone of Haitian
revolutionary studies. In Making The Black Jacobins, Rachel Douglas
traces the genesis, transformation, and afterlives of James's
landmark work across the decades from the 1930s on. Examining the
1938 and 1963 editions of The Black Jacobins, the 1967 play of the
same name, and James's 1936 play, Toussaint Louverture-as well as
manuscripts, notes, interviews, and other texts-Douglas shows how
James continuously rewrote and revised his history of the Haitian
Revolution as his politics and engagement with Marxism evolved. She
also points to the vital significance theater played in James's
work and how it influenced his views of history. Douglas shows The
Black Jacobins to be a palimpsest, its successive layers of
rewriting renewing its call to new generations.
"Rewriting" in the context of critical work on Caribbean literature
has tended to be used to discuss revisionism from a variety of
postcolonial perspectives, such as "rewriting history" or
"rewriting canonical texts." By shifting the focus to how Caribbean
writers return to their own works in order to rework them, this
book offers theoretical considerations to postcolonial studies on
"literariness" in relation to the near-obsessive degree of
rewriting to which Caribbean writers have subjected their own
literary texts. Focusing specifically on Franketienne, this book
offers an overview of how the defining aesthetic and thematic
components of Franketienne's major works have emerged over the
course of his forty-year writing career. It reveals the marked
development of key notions guiding his literary creation since the
1960s, and demonstrates that rewriting illustrates the central
aesthetic of the Spiral which has always shaped his oeuvre. It is,
the book argues, the constantly moving form of the Spiral which
Franketienne explores through his constant reworking of his
previously written texts. Franketienne and Rewriting negotiates
between the literary and material ends of the burgeoning field of
postcolonial studies, arguing that literary characteristics in
Franketienne connect with changing political, social, economic, and
cultural circumstances in the Haiti he rewrites.
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