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Development in Anthropology
Sep. 8th, 2005 02:41 pmYup, back to taking notes again. This shall dominate my posts for the next months to come.
Anthropology and Its Evil Twin: "Development" in the Constitution of a Discipline
James Ferguson, International Development and the Social Sciences: Essays on the History and Politics of Knowledge, 1997, pp. 150-175.
Key question: what is the relationship between the academic and the "reality" of development? "What kinds of flows exist, linking academic theories and knowledges to the world of agencies, policies, and practical politics?" (p. 152)
( Academic vs. RL in Developmental Intervention )
ETA: completely unrelated... from LA Times, Ukraine's President Fires Prime Minister
Anthropology and Its Evil Twin: "Development" in the Constitution of a Discipline
James Ferguson, International Development and the Social Sciences: Essays on the History and Politics of Knowledge, 1997, pp. 150-175.
Key question: what is the relationship between the academic and the "reality" of development? "What kinds of flows exist, linking academic theories and knowledges to the world of agencies, policies, and practical politics?" (p. 152)
( Academic vs. RL in Developmental Intervention )
ETA: completely unrelated... from LA Times, Ukraine's President Fires Prime Minister
"The pro-Western government that swept to power in Ukraine's "Orange Revolution" collapsed today when President Viktor Yushchenko fired his popular prime minister and accepted the resignations of key political allies, struggling to quell the most serious political crisis of his 7-month-old administration.
