International policy, development expertise and anthropology (Mosse, 2008)
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The study of policy knowledge in international development
Disaggregating and marketizing the state
The policy models involved here are highly formalistic, framed by the universal logic of new institutional economics (rules/incentives) and of law (rights/accountability).
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Social science is deployed to ‘render society technical’
What’s the use of anthropology to international development?”
- The anthropological starting point is skepticism regarding the claims of international development agencies to improve the conditions of “other people.”
- The task is to create space within programming worlds for anthropology's interpretive description
The challenge for anthropologists of development
- find constructive modes of re-entry for enhancement with the goals of development;
- to find a way to be interactive and contribute to public knowledge regimes,
- fully recognizing that this is a highly political space
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