Hope and insufficiency: capacity building in ethnographic comparison

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 se...

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Weitere Verfasser: Douglas-Jones, Rachel (HerausgeberIn), Shaffner, Justin (HerausgeberIn)
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York ; Oxford Berghahn 2021
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Zusammenfassung: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
Beschreibung:Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 04. Okt 2022)
"Originally published as a special issue of The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology, Volume 35, issue 1 (2017)"--Title page verso
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ISBN:9781800731011
DOI:10.1515/9781800731011

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