Anthropology and Development: Culture, Morality and Politics in a Globalised World - Softcover

Crewe, Emma

Softcover

ISBN 10: 052118472X ISBN 13: 9780521184724

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2012

Synopsis

In recent decades international development has grown into a world-shaping industry. But how do aid agencies work and what do they achieve? How does aid appear to the adults and children who receive it? And why has there been so little improvement in the position of the poor? Viewing aid and development from anthropological perspectives gives illuminating answers to questions such as these. This essential textbook reveals anthropologists' often surprising findings and details ethnographic case studies on the cultures of development. The authors use a fertile literature to examine the socio-political organisation of aid communities, agencies and networks, as well as the judgements they make about each other. The everyday practice of development work is about negotiating power and culture, but in vastly different ways in different contexts and for different social groups. Exploring the spaces between policy and practice, success and failure, the future and the past, this book provides a rounded understanding of development work that suggests new moral and political possibilities for an increasingly globalised world.

About this title

Book Description:

An overview of the insights anthropologists offer on aid and development. The authors uncover the cultures and concepts that shape the way people engage in aid and suggest new moral and political possibilities for an increasingly globalised world.

About the Author:

Emma Crewe is a Visiting Reader in the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at the School of Oriental and African Studies. She has worked as an anthropologist researcher, lecturer and practitioner in international development in South Asia, East Africa and the UK. In her research she explores inequalities, governance and institutions.

Richard Axelby is a Senior Teaching Fellow in the Anthropology of Development at the School of Oriental and African Studies. Richard has worked with development and educational NGOs in South Asia and in the UK. He is a fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 052118472X
• ISBN 13: 9780521184724
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 270