List of Figures
List of Boxes
INTRODUCTION
Doing development
Many developments
Success and failure
Change and continuity
Development in social context
Development actors
Economics and beyond
Policy in context?
An anthropological approach
About anthropology
Anthropology of development
Applying anthropology in development work
Aims of this book
CHAPTER ONE: ANTHROPOLOGY OF DEVELOPMENT IN THEORY
Development in context
Anthropologists and development
Development up close
Anthropologists in development work
Development actors: the people in the process
Actors on the margins
Anthropologists as development actors
Developers as social actors
Development knowledges: what people know
The idea of development
Indigenous knowledges
Development logics
Development institutions: what people do
Culture and institutions
Institutions and development
Institutions across cultures
Summary: Understanding development
CHAPTER TWO: ANTHROPOLOGY OF DEVELOPMENT IN PRACTICE
Stories of change on the ground
Grassroots actors
Invisible knowledges
Institutions and power
Learning from change on the ground
Stories of development practice
Actors in development practice
Knowledge for development
Old institutions and new
Learning from development practice
Summary: Lessons for practice
CHAPTER THREE: AN ANTHROPOLOGICAL FRAMEWORK FOR DEVELOPMENT PRACTICE
Framing and reframing development
The dominant framework: Problems, targets, solutions
An anthropological framework: contexts, actors, and resources
The development landscape
Development in context
Unpacking actors
Knowledges and logics
Institutions and change
Summary: Doing development anthropologically
CHAPTER FOUR: APPLYING THE FRAMEWORK: TOOLS AND APPROACHES
Assessment tools: Understanding contexts
Tools for desktop assessment
Tools for assessment workshops
Community-based assessment tools
Design tools: Crafting actions for change
Visioning and planning tools
Resourcing tools
Implementation tools: Life on the development landscape
Participatory governance tools
Participatory management tools
Evaluation tools: Learning and accountability
Practice learning tools
Accountability tools
Tools for reflexive practice
Working with anthropologists
Summary: Tools and their uses
CHAPTER FIVE: ANTHROPOLOGICAL RESPONSES TO DEVELOPMENT CHALLENGES
A recipe for effectiveness?
Poverty as a verb
From participation to recognition
The challenge of sustainability
Summary: From challenges to opportunities?
CHAPTER SIX: CONCLUSIONS: USING ANTHROPOLOGY IN DEVELOPMENT WORK
Lesson One: Development abhors a vacuum
Lesson Two: Development is always about people
Lesson Three: Reframing is the key to change
Anthropology for development, toward the future
FURTHER READING
Development case studies - useful collections
Ethnographies of local economic development
Unpacking the idea of development
Anthropology of / for practice
REFERENCES
INDEX
