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Differentiating Development: Beyond an Anthropology of Critique
Soumhya Venkatesan (Ed.)
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Hardback. Over 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. Editor(s): Venkatesan, Soumhya; Yarrow, Thomas. Num Pages: 260 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: GTF; JHMC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 159 x 19. Weight in Grams: 486. Beyond an Anthropology of Critique. 220 pages. Editor(s): Venkatesan, Soumhya; Yarrow, Thomas. Over 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. Cateogry: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. BIC Classification: GTF; JHMC. Dimension: 235 x 159 x 19. Weight: 486.
Over 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 ... Read more
Over 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Number of pages
220
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Weight
485g
Number of Pages
260
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780857453037
SKU
V9780857453037
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About Soumhya Venkatesan (Ed.)
Soumhya Venkatesan lectures in Social Anthropology at the University of Manchester. She is the author of Craft Matters: Artisans, Development and the Indian Nation (Orient Blackswan 2009). Thomas Yarrow lectures in Social Anthropology at Durham University. He is the author of Development Beyond Politics: Aid, Activism and NGOs in Ghana (Palgrave, 2011), and the co-editor of Archaeology and Anthropology: ... Read more
Reviews for Differentiating Development: Beyond an Anthropology of Critique
The 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 ... Read more