Anthropology and Development: Challenges for the Twenty-First Century – Katy Gardner & David Lewis
Author(s): Katy Gardner & David Lewis
Publisher: Pluto Press
Print Length: 224 pages
Genre: Non-Fiction / Anthropology, Non-Fiction / Cultural Studies, Non-Fiction / Development Studies
Topic: Cultural Relativism, Development, Social Change
Western aid is in decline. New forms of aid, from within the developing countries themselves and elsewhere, are in the ascent, and a new set of global economic and political processes are shaping development in the twenty-first century. Katy Gardner and David Lewis have completely rewritten and updated their earlier, influential work, bringing it up to the present day. They engage with nearly two decades of continuity and change in the development industry, arguing in particular that while international development has expanded since the 1990s, it has become more rigidly technocratic. Anthropology & Development will serve as a reformulation of the field and as an excellent textbook for both graduate and undergraduates alike.
Table of Contents
Series Preface
Preface
Acknowledgements
Glossary
Development jargon
Anthropological jargon
Acronyms
Prelude: Development, Post-Development and More
Development?
1. Understanding Development: Theory and Practice into the
Twenty-First Century
Development: history and meanings
The ‘aid industry’
Theories of development
Global changes and continuities
Anthropology and post-development: into the twenty-first century
2. Applying Anthropology
Anthropology, cultural relativism and social change 4
The evolution of applied anthropology
Development as an applied field of anthropology
Dilemmas of applied work
Engaged anthropology in the twenty-first century
Dissolving the boundaries?
3. The Anthropology of Development Anthropologists, change and development: the view from 1996
The anthropology of development from 2000 onwards:
new agendas, old questions
4. Anthropologists in Development: Access, Effects and Control
Access
Effects
Control
Conclusion
5. When Good Ideas Turn Bad: The Dominant Discourse
Bites Back
When good ideas go bad: the rise and fall of politicised development
Ethnography, participation and empowerment, round two
Conclusion: Anthropology, Development and
Twenty-First-Century Challenges
Control, access, effects
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Katy Gardner trained at Cambridge and the LSE. After working at Sussex from 1993 – 2013, Katy joined the Anthropology department at LSE in 2013.
Her work focusses on issues of globalisation, migration and economic change in Bangladesh and its transnational communities in the U.K. Her doctoral research, carried out in the 1980s, examined the transformations associated with overseas migration in a village in Sylhet, and resulted in her monograph Global Migrants, Local Lives: Travel and Transformation in Rural Bangladesh
Source: https://www.lse.ac.uk/anthropology/people/katy-gardner
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David Lewis is Professor of Anthropology and Development in the Department of International Development. David’s research interests lie at the interface between development studies and anthropology, and most of his work has been concerned with understanding people’s encounters with development actors and development processes. He undertakes regular fieldwork in Bangladesh on governance, policy and civil society and also worked in Nepal, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, Palestine and Uganda. He is currently the Principal Investigator on a research project on the ethnography of small business advice giving in Sri Lanka and Bangladesh, and is completing a collaborative project on conflict and deprivation in Palestine. He has a growing interest in representations of development in popular culture, including music, fiction and film, and is a Faculty Advisory Group member in the LSE South Asia Centre.
Source: https://www.lse.ac.uk/international-development/people/Professor-David-Lewis
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