Abstract
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A second argument underpinning this volume, and the reason we decided to review it in Commoning Ethnography, is that ethnographic comparison is a generative approach for engaging with highly mobile concepts like capacity building
Published in 2017 as a special issue of The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology 35(1), this volume began as a 2011 American Anthropological Association panel and was further developed at a 2015 Wenner-Gren workshop
The time invested in developing a shared theoretical framing has resulted in a cohesive collection that tracks ‘how capacities can become sites of cultivation or intervention’ across a range of ethnographic contexts
Summary
Published in 2017 as a special issue of The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology 35(1), this volume began as a 2011 American Anthropological Association panel and was further developed at a 2015 Wenner-Gren workshop. Hope and Insufficiency: Capacity Building in Ethnographic Comparison. This volume critically examines a ubiquitous and, according to editors Rachel Douglas-Jones and Justin Shaffner, undertheorised aspect of contemporary aid, development, and NGO work: capacity building.
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