Shirley Ardener, a well-published social anthropologist, is a Senior Associate of Queen Elizabeth House, Oxford University. She was the founding director of the Centre for Cross-Cultural Research on Women, now the International Gender Studies Centre, of which she remains an active honorary member.

“…the case studies…do, together, speak to methodological issues that are about more than the enrichment of a sub-field…[The volume’s] publication is well timed to pause a pause for thinking about what, analytically, anthropology has to offer amidst the crisis of corporatist failure.”  ·  JRAI

• List of FiguresPrefaceShirley ArdenerIntroduction: Bridging Businesses and BureaucraciesFiona MooreChapter 1. Matters of the Heart: The Business of English Rugby LeagueMargaret GroeneveldChapter 2. When Worlds Collide: British Bureaucracy Meets German Bureaucracy in the Global Finance-scapeFiona MooreChapter 3. Image and Reality in an Israeli ‘Absorption Centre’ for Ethiopian ImmigrantsEsther HerzogChapter 4. Loyalty and Politics: The Discourses of LiberalisationSimone AbramChapter 5. Identities under Construction: The Case of International EducationHilary CallanChapter 6. Portrait of an Aid Donor: A Profile of DFIDAnne ColesChapter 7. Identity Construction in Development Practices: The Government of Ghana, Civil Society, Private Sector and Development PartnersLindsay Whitfield

Shirley Ardener, a well-published social anthropologist, is a Senior Associate of Queen Elizabeth House, Oxford University. She was the founding director of the Centre for Cross-Cultural Research on Women, now the International Gender Studies Centre, of which she remains an active honorary member.

“…the case studies…do, together, speak to methodological issues that are about more than the enrichment of a sub-field…[The volume’s] publication is well timed to pause a pause for thinking about what, analytically, anthropology has to offer amidst the crisis of corporatist failure.”  ·  JRAI

• List of FiguresPrefaceShirley ArdenerIntroduction: Bridging Businesses and BureaucraciesFiona MooreChapter 1. Matters of the Heart: The Business of English Rugby LeagueMargaret GroeneveldChapter 2. When Worlds Collide: British Bureaucracy Meets German Bureaucracy in the Global Finance-scapeFiona MooreChapter 3. Image and Reality in an Israeli ‘Absorption Centre’ for Ethiopian ImmigrantsEsther HerzogChapter 4. Loyalty and Politics: The Discourses of LiberalisationSimone AbramChapter 5. Identities under Construction: The Case of International EducationHilary CallanChapter 6. Portrait of an Aid Donor: A Profile of DFIDAnne ColesChapter 7. Identity Construction in Development Practices: The Government of Ghana, Civil Society, Private Sector and Development PartnersLindsay Whitfield

Shirley Ardener, a well-published social anthropologist, is a Senior Associate of Queen Elizabeth House, Oxford University. She was the founding director of the Centre for Cross-Cultural Research on Women, now the International Gender Studies Centre, of which she remains an active honorary member.

“…the case studies…do, together, speak to methodological issues that are about more than the enrichment of a sub-field…[The volume’s] publication is well timed to pause a pause for thinking about what, analytically, anthropology has to offer amidst the crisis of corporatist failure.”  ·  JRAI

• List of FiguresPrefaceShirley ArdenerIntroduction: Bridging Businesses and BureaucraciesFiona MooreChapter 1. Matters of the Heart: The Business of English Rugby LeagueMargaret GroeneveldChapter 2. When Worlds Collide: British Bureaucracy Meets German Bureaucracy in the Global Finance-scapeFiona MooreChapter 3. Image and Reality in an Israeli ‘Absorption Centre’ for Ethiopian ImmigrantsEsther HerzogChapter 4. Loyalty and Politics: The Discourses of LiberalisationSimone AbramChapter 5. Identities under Construction: The Case of International EducationHilary CallanChapter 6. Portrait of an Aid Donor: A Profile of DFIDAnne ColesChapter 7. Identity Construction in Development Practices: The Government of Ghana, Civil Society, Private Sector and Development PartnersLindsay Whitfield