Chapter 1 Introduction: The Anthropology of Expertise and Professionals in International Development

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. Preface and Acknowledgements vii
4. Chapter 1 Introduction: The Anthropology of Expertise and Professionals in International Development 1
5. Chapter 2 Calculating Compassion: Accounting for Some Categorical Practices in International Development 33
6. Chapter 3 Rendering Society Technical: Government through Community and the Ethnographic Turn at the World Bank in Indonesia 57
7. Chapter 4 Social Analysis as Corporate Product: Non- Economists/Anthropologists at Work at the World Bank in Washington, D.C. 81
8. Chapter 5 The World Bank’s Expertise: Observant Participation in the World Development Report 2006, Equity and Development 103
9. Chapter 6 World Health and Nepal: Producing Internationals, Healthy Citizenship and the Cosmopolitan 123
10. Chapter 7 The Sociality of International Aid and Policy Convergence 139
11. Chapter 8 Parochial Cosmopolitanism and the Power of Nostalgia 161
12. Chapter 9 Tidy Concepts, Messy Lives: Defining Tensions in the Domestic and Overseas Careers of U.K. Non-Governmental Professionals 177
13. Chapter 10 Coda: With Alice in Aidland: A Seriously Satirical Allegory 199
14. Notes on Contributors 221
15. Index 225