Hope and Insufficiency

Capacity Building in Ethnographic Comparison

Inbunden, Engelska, 2021

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Beskrivning

A process through which skills, knowledge, and resources are expanded, capacity building, remains a tantalizing and pervasive concept throughout the field of anthropology, though it has received little in the way of critical analysis. By exploring the concept’s role in a variety of different settings including government lexicons, religious organizations, environmental campaigns, biomedical training, and fieldwork from around the globe, Hope and Insufficiency seeks to question the histories, assumptions, intentions, and enactments that have led to the ubiquity of capacity building, thereby developing a much-needed critical purchase on its persuasive power.

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Utgivningsdatum:2021-09-17
Mått:152 x 229 x 14 mm
Vikt:406 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:180
Förlag:Berghahn Books
ISBN:9781800730991

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Rachel Douglas-Jones is Associate Professor at the IT University of Copenhagen, where she is currently the PI of Moving Data- Moving People, a study of emergent social credit systems in China through the lens of trust. Her recent publications include ‘Committee as Witness’ (The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology, 2021) and she is the editor (with Antonia Walford and Nick Seaver) of Towards an Anthropology of Data (JRAI, 2021)

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List of illustrationsPreface: Verbal Sophisms and Problems with Capacity BuildingMartha MacintyreIntroduction: Capacity Building in Ethnographic ComparisonRachel Douglas-Jones and Justin ShaffnerChapter 1. Professionalizing Persons and Foretelling Futures: Capacity Building in Post-Earthquake HaitiKristin LaHatteChapter 2. Capacity as Aggregation: Promises, Water and a Form of Collective Care in Northeast BrazilAndrea BallesteroChapter 3. Building Capacity in Ethical Review: Compliance and Transformation in the Asia-Pacific RegionRachel Douglas-JonesChapter 4. Corrective Capacities: From Unruly Politics to Democratic CapacitaciónSusan EllisonChapter 5. Capacity Building as Instrument and Empowerment: Training Health Workers for Community-Based Roles in GhanaHarriet BouldingChapter 6. Personal and Professional Encompassment in Organizational Capacity Building: SOS Children’s Villages and Supportive HousingViktoryia KalesnikavaChapter 7. Community Capacity Building: Transforming Amerindian Sociality in Peruvian AmazoniaChristopher HewlettChapter 8. ‘Integrating Human to Quality’: Capacity Building across Cambodian WorldsCasper Bruun Jensen