Adventures in Aidland : the anthropology of professionals in international development / edited by David Mosse.
| Other author | Mosse, David. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | New York : Berghahn Books, 2011. |
| Description | x, 238 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Series | Studies in public and applied anthropology ; v. 6 Studies in public and applied anthropology v. 6. ^A1107781 |
| Contents | Calculating compassion : accounting for some categorical practices in international development / Maia Green -- Rendering society technical : government through community and the ethnographic turn at the World Bank in Indonesia / Tania Murray Li -- Social analysis as corporate product : non-economists/anthropologists at work at the World Bank in Washington, D.C. / David Mosse -- The World Banks' expertise : observant participation in the world development report 2006, equity and development / Desmond McNeill and Asuncion Lera St. Clair -- World health and Nepal : producing internationals, healthy citizenship and the cosmopolitan / Ian Harper -- The sociality of international aid and policy convergence / Rosalind Eyben -- Parochial cosmopolitanism and the power of nostalgia / Dinah Rajak and Jock Stirrat -- Tidy concepts, messy lives : defining tensions in the domestic and overseas careers of U.K. non-governmental professionals / David Lewis -- Coda : with Alice in Aidland : a seriously satirical allegory / Raymond Apthorpe. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 2011000953 |
| ISBN | 9780857451101 (hardback : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0857451103 (hardback : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780857451118 (ebook) |
| ISBN | 0857451111 (ebook) |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joyner | General Stacks | GN397.5 .A38 2011 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |