Anthropology and Public Service

The UK Experience
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-78533-402-3
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, 202 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 451 g

These days an increasing number of social anthropologists do not find employment within academia. Rather, many find jobs with commercial organizations or in government, where they run research teams and create policy. These scholars provide a much-needed social dimension to government thinking and practice. Anthropology and Public Service shows how anthropologists can set new agendas, and revise old ones in the public sector. Written for scholars and students of various social sciences, these chapters include discussions of anthropologists’ work with the Department for International Development, the Ministry of Defence, the UK Border Agency, and the Cabinet Office, and their contributions to prison governance.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Macclancy, Jeremy

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Verwaltungswissenschaft, Öffentliche Verwaltung
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Kommunal-, Regional-, und Landesverwaltung
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Ausbildung, Jobs, Karriere: Human- & Sozialwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Wirtschaftssoziologie, Arbeitssoziologie, Organisationssoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1. Introduction
: Anthropology and Public Service

Jeremy MacClancy

Chapter 2. On Her Majesty’s Service (and Beyond): Anthropology’s Contribution to an Unconventional Career

Mils Hills

Chapter 3. You Can’t Go Home Again: Anthropology Displacement and the Work of Government

Benjamin R. Smith

Chapter 4. Anthropology in the Closet: Contributions to Community Development and Local Government in the UK

Robert Gregory

Chapter 5. Parading through the Peace Process: Anthropology, Governance and Crisis in Northern Ireland

Dominic Bryan and Neil Jarman

Chapter 6. From Participant Observer to Observed Participant: a Prison Governor’s Experience

Peter Bennett

Chapter 7. Identity and Appropriation in Applied Health Research

Rachael Gooberman-Hill

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Macclancy, Jeremy
Jeremy MacClancy is Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Anthropological Centre for Conservation, the Environment, and Development, Oxford Brookes University. His latest books are Ethics in the Field: Contemporary Challenges (with A. Fuentes), and Alternative Countrysides: Anthropological Approaches to Rural West Europe Today.