Hope and insufficiency capacity building in ethnographic comparison

Preface : verbal sophisms and problems with capacity building / Martha Macintyre -- Capacity building in ethnographic comparison / Rachel Douglas-Jones and Justin Shaffner -- Professionalizing persons and foretelling futures : capacity building in post-earthquake Haiti / Kristin LaHatte -- Capacity...

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Weitere Verfasser: Douglas-Jones, Rachel (BerichterstatterIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: New York ; Oxford Berghahn Books 2021
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Zusammenfassung:Preface : verbal sophisms and problems with capacity building / Martha Macintyre -- Capacity building in ethnographic comparison / Rachel Douglas-Jones and Justin Shaffner -- Professionalizing persons and foretelling futures : capacity building in post-earthquake Haiti / Kristin LaHatte -- Capacity as aggregation : promises, water and a form of collective care in Northeast Brazil / Andrea Ballestero -- Building capacity in ethical review : compliance and transformation in the Asia-Pacific region / Rachel Douglas-Jones -- Corrective capacities : from unruly politics to democratic capacitación / Susan Ellison -- Capacity building as instrument and empowerment : training health workers for community-based roles in Ghana / Harriet Boulding -- Personal and professional encompassment in organizational capacity building : SOS children's villages and supportive housing / Viktoryia Kalesnikava -- Community capacity building : transforming Amerindian sociality in Peruvian Amazonia / Christopher Hewlett -- 'Integrating human to quality' : capacity building across Cambodian worlds / Casper Bruun Jensen -- Afterword : measurable subjectivities and discoverable worlds / George Mentore
"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:"Originally published as a special issue of The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology, Volume 35, issue 1 (2017)"--Title page verso
Beschreibung:xii, 156 Seiten
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ISBN:9781800730991
978-1-80073-099-1
9781800731004
978-1-80073-100-4