Hope and Insufficiency

Capacity Building in Ethnographic Comparison
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-80073-100-4
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, 180 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 256 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Douglas-Jones, Rachel

Shaffner, Justin

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Ethnographie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Theorie und Methoden der Ethnologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of illustrations

Preface: Verbal Sophisms and Problems with Capacity Building

Martha Macintyre

Introduction: Capacity Building in Ethnographic Comparison

Rachel Douglas-Jones and Justin Shaffner

Chapter 1. Professionalizing Persons and Foretelling Futures: Capacity Building in Post-Earthquake Haiti

Kristin LaHatte

Chapter 2. Capacity as Aggregation: Promises, Water and a Form of Collective Care in Northeast Brazil

Andrea Ballestero

Chapter 3. Building Capacity in Ethical Review: Compliance and Transformation in the Asia-Pacific Region

Rachel Douglas-Jones

Chapter 4. Corrective Capacities: From Unruly Politics to Democratic Capacitación

Susan Ellison

Chapter 5. Capacity Building as Instrument and Empowerment: Training Health Workers for Community-Based Roles in Ghana

Harriet Boulding

Chapter 6. Personal and Professional Encompassment in Organizational Capacity Building: SOS Children’s Villages and Supportive Housing

Viktoryia Kalesnikava

Chapter 7. Community Capacity Building: Transforming Amerindian Sociality in Peruvian Amazonia

Christopher Hewlett

Chapter 8. ‘Integrating Human to Quality’: Capacity Building across Cambodian Worlds

Casper Bruun Jensen

Über Autor(innen)

Shaffner, Justin
Justin Shaffner is a member of the New Centre for Research and Practice. He is editor (with Huon Wardle) of Cosmopolitics: The Collected Papers of the Open Anthropology Cooperative, Vol-ume I (OAC Press, 2017).

Douglas-Jones, Rachel
Rachel Douglas-Jones is Associate Professor at the IT University of Copenhagen, where she co-directs the ETHOS Lab. Her recent publications include ‘A “Good” Ethical Review: Audit and Professionalism in Research Ethics’ (Social Anthropology, 2015) and ‘Claiming and Knowing the Real’ (Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 2016).

Rachel Douglas-Jones is Associate Professor at the IT University of Copenhagen, where she co-directs the ETHOS Lab. Her recent publications include ‘A “Good” Ethical Review: Audit and Professionalism in Research Ethics’ (Social Anthropology, 2015) and ‘Claiming and Knowing the Real’ (Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 2016).