International policy, development expertise and anthropology (Mosse, 2008)

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The study of policy knowledge in international development

observations about policy knowledge in international development and the ways in which it has become the subject of anthropological study

Disaggregating and marketizing the state

Breaking up existent forms of state rule (dismissed as corrupt or patrimonial) and then using markets to replace and reconstruct the institutions of governance

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’

conceived in terms of calculate rationality, self-organization, or the deficits/surpluses of social capital, to allow expert-designed interventions.

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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