Anthropology for Development: From Theory to Practice - Robyn Eversole

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Résumé :

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