Adventures in Aidland : the anthropology of professionals in international development

Summary: 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.

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ISBN: 9780857451101
ISBN: 0857451103
ISBN: 9780857451118
ISBN: 0857451111
Physical Description: 1 online resource (x, 238 pages).
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Publisher: New York : Berghahn Books, ©2011.

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General Note:	CatMonthString:july.24 Multi-User.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Calculating compassion : accounting for some categorical practices in international development / Maia Green -- Rendering society technical : government through community and the ethnographic turn at the World Bank in Indonesia / Tania Murray Li -- Social analysis as corporate product : non-economists/anthropologists at work at the World Bank in Washington, D.C. / David Mosse -- The World Banks' expertise : observant participation in the world development report 2006, equity and development / Desmond McNeill and Asuncion Lera St. Clair -- World health and Nepal : producing internationals, healthy citizenship and the cosmopolitan / Ian Harper -- The sociality of international aid and policy convergence / Rosalind Eyben -- Parochial cosmopolitanism and the power of nostalgia / Dinah Rajak and Jock Stirrat -- Tidy concepts, messy lives : defining tensions in the domestic and overseas careers of U.K. non-governmental professionals / David Lewis -- Coda : with Alice in Aidland : a seriously satirical allegory / Raymond Apthorpe.
Type of Computer File or Data Note:	Text (HTML), electronic book.
System Details Note:	Mode of access: Internet.
Terms Governing Use and Reproduction Note:	Access requires VIU IP addresses and is restricted to VIU students, faculty and staff. Access restricted by subscription.
Issuing Body Note:	Made available online by JSTOR.
Source of Description Note:	Print version record.