ISBN:
1842774166
,
1842774174
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (243 p)
,
24 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Uniform Title:
Anthropologie et développement. 〈engl.〉
Parallel Title:
Print version Anthropology and Development : Understanding Contemporary Social Change
DDC:
303.4/096
Keywords:
Social change
;
Applied anthropology
;
Africa Social conditions
Abstract:
This 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
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; About the Author; Title; Copyright; Contents; 1 Introduction: The three approaches in the anthropology of development; The discourse of development; Populism, anthropology and development; The entangled social logic approach; Conclusion: the future of the entangled social logic approach and its work in progress (research in Africa and beyond); 2 Socio-anthropology of development: Some preliminary statements; Development; Socio-anthropology of development; Comparativism; Action; Populism; A collective problematic; Social change and development: in Africa or in general?
Description / Table of Contents:
3 Anthropology, sociology, Africa and development: A brief historical overviewFrench colonial ethnology; Reactions: dynamic and/or Marxist anthropology; From a sociological viewpoint: sociology of modernization and sociology of development; Systems analysis; The current situation: multi-rationalities; 4 A renewal of anthropology?; To the rescue of social science?; The 'properties' of 'development facts'; Two heuristic points of view; Anthropology of social change and development and the fields of anthropology; 5 Stereotypes, ideologies and conceptions; A meta-ideology of development
Description / Table of Contents:
Infra-ideologies: conceptionsFive stereotypes; The relative truth of stereotypes: the example of 'culture'; The propensity for stereotypes: the example of 'needs'; 6 Is an anthropology of innovation possible?; A panorama in four points of view; Is an innovations problematic possible in anthropology ?; Innovation as a way in; 7 Developmentalist populism and social science populism : Ideology, action, knowledge; Intellectuals and their ambiguous populism; The poor according to Chambers; The developmentalist populist complex; Moral populism; Cognitive populism and methodological populism
Description / Table of Contents:
Ideological populismPopulism and miserabilism; Where action becomes compromise; … and where knowledge can become opposition …; … yet methodology should combine!; 8 Relations of production and modes of economic action; Songhay-Zarma societies under colonization: peasant mode of production and relations of production; Subsistence logic during the colonial period; Relations of production and contemporary transformations; Conclusion; 9 Development projects and social logic; The context of interaction; Levels of project coherence; Peasant reactions; Two principles; Three logics, among many others
Description / Table of Contents:
Strategic logics and notional logics10 Popular knowledge and scientific and technical knowledge; Popular technical knowledge; A few properties of popular technical knowledge; Popular technical knowledge and technical-scientific knowledge; Fields of popular knowledge and infrastructure; 11 Mediations and brokerage; Development agents; A parenthesis on corruption; Development agents as mediators between types of knowledge; Brokers; The development language; 12 Arenas and strategic groups; Local development as a political arena; Conflict, arena, strategic groups; The ECRIS framework
Description / Table of Contents:
13 Conclusion : The dialogue between social scientists and developers
Note:
Includes bibliographical references p. (217-235) and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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