Description: A critical look at how a non-traditional, technocratic development industry is failing the societies it professes to help
Brief description:
Katy Gardner is Professor of Anthropology at the London School of Economics and the author of Global Migrants, Local Lives (Oxford University Press, 1995), Discordant Development (Pluto, 2012) and Anthropology and Development (Pluto, 2015).
Review Quotes: 'Ameliorates the despair which students of development often feel once they come to understand the complexity, and the vested interests, of the aid industry''An authoritative and up to date overview that combines accurate and insightful overviews of the major contributions in the field with their own original and illuminating arguments''Essential reading for all involved with anthropology or development - and essential proof that they should engage their perspectives with each other more deeply and more often''The already impressive state of arts of the first book has been extended to most of the rapidly expanding literature of the last twenty years. This book is essential for anyone interested by debates concerning the relation between anthropology and development''This carefully reworked volume by two of development's most accomplished scholars reinvigorates, like no other treatise in the field, the connection between research, critique, and action in inspired and practical ways''A valuable addition to the history and heritage of anthropologyof/in development'