scholarly journals Has APAD lost its passion? Reflections on engaged and applied work in anthropology of development

2021 ◽  
pp. 161-171
Author(s):  
Sarah Fichtner ◽  
Anneke Newman
Keyword(s):  
Anthropology Of Development

Learning the anthropology of development: the university as a site of knowledge construction and identity formation

Journal ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tanya Jakimow
Keyword(s):  
Identity Formation ◽  
Lifelong Learning ◽  
Knowledge Construction ◽  
Multiple Identities ◽  
Classroom Teachers ◽  
Practical Skills ◽  
Student Reactions ◽  
A Site ◽  
The University ◽  
Anthropology Of Development

Recent work exploring student reactions to the anthropology of development highlights the importance of going beyond simply imparting practical skills, or alternatively delivering content that offers an unrelenting critique (Djohari 2011; Handler 2013). In this paper, I argue that by casting an anthropological eye on the classroom, teachers can provide a learning environment in which students transform into reflective ‘novice’ practitioners equipped for lifelong learning. This involves making explicit the processes of knowledge construction in the classroom, and by extension, the development field. It entails providing the resources through which students can become social beings in the development sector, with attention to expanding the possibilities for the formation of multiple identities. 

scholarly journals Anthropology of development and the challenge of South-South cooperation

2012 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 507-537 ◽  
Author(s):  
Letícia Maria Costa da Nóbrega Cesarino
Keyword(s):  
Development Aid ◽  
Development Cooperation ◽  
International Literature ◽  
Tropical Agriculture ◽  
African Continent ◽  
Global Industry ◽  
Fieldwork Experience ◽  
Ethnographic Writing ◽  
Institutional Aspect ◽  
Anthropology Of Development

This article explores some of the challenges and potentials that the emerging phenomenon of South-South cooperation (SSC) might pose to major approaches in the international literature on the anthropology of development. Irrespective of particular politico-conceptual preferences, the latter's analytics have been largely crafted based on ethnographic work about development aid provided by Northern agencies or North-led multilateral organizations. Based on my own fieldwork experience with Brazil's contemporary provision of official technical cooperation in tropical agriculture to various countries in the African continent, I propose a discussion about four sets of themes: Foucauldian approaches to development based on notions of governmentality and discourse; the associated question of politics/depoliticization; the institutional aspect of development cooperation as a national and global industry and bureaucracy; and the question of ethnographic authority and the transit between what David Mosse has referred to as field (relations entertained with informants during fieldwork) and desk (relations entertained with academic peers during ethnographic writing).

The Anthropology of Development: Discourse, Agency, and Culture

1996 ◽  
Vol 69 (3) ◽  
pp. 165 ◽  
Author(s):  
David D. Gow ◽  
Mark Hobart ◽  
Arturo Escobar
Keyword(s):  
Development Discourse ◽  
Anthropology Of Development

scholarly journals Reconsidering governmental effects of grassland science and policy in China

2008 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 44 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael L. Zukosky
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Ethnic Minority ◽  
Central Government ◽  
National Level ◽  
Grassland Management ◽  
The State ◽  
Science And Policy ◽  
Policy Objectives ◽  
Ethnography Of The State ◽  
Anthropology Of Development

This article explores why local pastoral land use arrangements in northwestern China differ from national level grassland policy objectives and initiatives. Drawing on the local particularities of fieldwork in a Chinese ethnic minority region, I argue that the land use arrangements which resulted from the implementation of decollectivization and new grassland management policies represent both an engagement of the minority area by the central government, but also a way that the residents of one locality have engaged the state in culturally specific ways. Applying contemporary theory in the ethnography of the state (Das and Poole 2004, Mitchell 1989; 1999; 2000, Taussig 1996) and the anthropology of development (Li 1999, Moore 2005) to data from recent ethnographic fieldwork, this article reflects upon how documents and practices as well as ideas of grassland policy make possible certain kinds of political symbols which render invisible to the central government local interests and resource conflicts, and thus, a narrative of a seemingly coherent, consistent, and organized state.Key Words: China, grassland policy, ethnic minority, decollectivization

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