Anthropology and Development: Understanding Comtemporary Social ChangeThis book re-establishes the relevance of mainstream anthropological (and sociological) approaches to development processes and simultaneously recognizes that contemporary development ought to be anthropology's principal area of study. Professor de Sardan argues for a socio-anthropology of change and development that is a deeply empirical, multidimensional, diachronic study of social groups and their interactions. The Introduction provides a thought-provoking examination of the principal new approaches that have emerged in the discipline during the 1990s. Part I then makes clear the complexity of social change and development, and the ways in which socio-anthropology can measure up to the challenge of this complexity. Part II looks more closely at some of the leading variables involved in the development process, including relations of production; the logics of social action; the nature of knowledge; forms of mediation; and 'political' strategies. Following its successful publication in French, this important book will provoke much thoughtful debate within Anthropology, Sociology and Development Studies. |
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Developmentalist populism and social science populism | 110 |
Cognitive populism and methodological populism | 116 |
and where knowledge can become opposition | 122 |
Popular knowledge and scientific and technical knowledge | 153 |
Mediations and brokerage | 166 |
Arenas and strategic groups | 185 |
Conclusion | 198 |
Bibliography | 217 |
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Anthropology and Development: Understanding Contemporary Social Change Jean-Pierre Oliver De-Sardan Vista previa limitada - 2013 |
Anthropology and development: understanding contemporary social change Jean-Pierre Olivier de Sardan Vista de fragmentos - 2005 |
Términos y frases comunes
African agricultural analysis anthropology of development anthropology of social arena behaviour Bierschenk brokerage brokers change and development Chapter coherence colonial common competence complex conceptions concerned conflicts confrontation constraints context culture deconstructionism development agents development institutions development language development operators development projects developmentalist configuration diffusion discourse economic economic anthropology empirical enquiry etcetera ethnology example exist fact field ideological populism individual innovation interactions intervention Marxist means mediators ment methodological individualism methodological populism milieu mode of production networks NGOs norms notion Olivier de Sardan paradigm peasant perspective point of view political popular knowledge popular technical knowledge populist practices problem problematic processes professional project language propose reality reference relations of production relationship role scientific scientists sidetracking social actors social change social sciences societies sociology specific stereotypes strategic groups strategies structures studies subsistence logic symbolic syncretism technical—scientific knowledge tion traditional various village Zarma
Pasajes populares
Página 94 - Katz, Levin, and Hamilton [32] characterized the process of diffusion as the "acceptance, over time, of some specific item — an idea or practice, by individuals, groups, or other adopting units, linked to specific channels of communication, to a social structure, and to a given system of values or culture.
Página 40 - The essence of an actor-oriented approach is that its concepts are grounded in the everyday life experiences and understandings of men and women, be they poor peasants, entrepreneurs, government bureaucrats or researchers.
Página 109 - Social System A social system is defined as a set of interrelated units that are engaged in joint problem solving to accomplish a common goal.
Página 57 - In essence, we are interested in developing theoretically grounded methods of social research that allow for the elucidation of actors' interpretations and strategies, and of how these interlock through processes of negotiation and accommodation.
Página 109 - ... innovativeness. To date, diffusion research has concentrated too much (1) on investigating the characteristics of adopter categories, and (2) in studying a rather limited range of such characteristics variables. Do we really need a 276th study of the relationship of education to innovativeness (Table 7-1)? I think not. A much wiser use of research resources would be to explore other independent variables in their relationship with innovativeness, especially network variables and system-level...
Página 5 - There is a tendency - illustrated, for example, by Hobart, Escobar and to a lesser degree Ferguson - to see development as a monolithic enterprise, heavily controlled from the top, convinced of the superiority of its own wisdom and impervious to local knowledge, or indeed common-sense experience, a single gaze or voice which is all-powerful and beyond influence. This underpins what I would call the 'myth of development' which pervades much critical writing in this field.
Página 10 - ... ('a certain understanding of science, modernity and development has so successfully structured the dominant discourse that all other kinds of knowledge are regarded as backward, static traditions, as old wives' tales and superstitions'; ibid.: 331), his work also contains methodological populism.
Página 88 - I think— by national planners as the major needs of rural areas. It is not often that a "teahouse of the August moon" is built out of developmental funds because villagers insist it is their number-one need. The point I am trying to make is not that community development is...
Página 19 - Escobar (1991) has argued, however, work in development anthropology gradually came to be more and more adjusted to the bureaucratic demands of development agencies, at the expense of its intellectual rigor and critical self-consciousness.
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| Título | Anthropology and Development: Understanding Comtemporary Social Change |
| Autor | Jean-Pierre Olivier de Sardan |
| Traducido por | Antoinette Tidjani Alou |
| Editor | Zed Books, 2005 |
| ISBN | 1842774174, 9781842774175 |
| Largo | 243 páginas |
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