Concerned with the construction and transmission of knowledge about global poverty and its reduction
Describes the social life of development professionals, the capacity of ideas to mediate relationships, the networks of experts and communities of aid workers, and the dilemmas of maintaining professional identities.
Examines the transformations that occur as social scientific concepts and practices cross and re-cross the boundary between anthropological and policy making knowledge.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
List of Contributors
Preface and Acknowledgements
Chapter 1. Introduction: The Anthropology of Expertise and Professionals in International Development
David Mosse
Chapter 2. Calculating Compassion: Accounting for Some Categorical Practices in International Development
Maia Green
Chapter 3. Rendering Society Technical: Government Through Community and the Ethnographic Turn at the World Bank in Indonesia
Tania Murray Li
Chapter 4. Social Analysis as Corporate Product: Non-Economists/Anthropologists at Work at the World Bank in Washington DC
David Mosse
Chapter 5. The World Bank's Expertise: Observant Participation in the World Development Report 2006, Equity and Development
Desmond McNeill and Asun Lera St.Clair
Chapter 6. World Health and Nepal: Producing Internationals, Healthy Citizenship and the Cosmopolitan
Ian Harper
Chapter 7. The Sociality of International Aid and Policy Convergence
Rosalind Eyben
Chapter 8. Parochial Cosmopolitanism and the Power of Nostalgia
Dinah Rajak and Jock Stirrat
Chapter 9. Tidy Concepts, Messy Lives: Defining Tensions in the Domestic and Overseas Careers of UK Non-governmental Professionals
David Lewis
Chapter 10. Coda: Alice in Aidland, A Seriously Satirical Allegory
Raymond Apthorpe
Bibliography
Index
