Is 'development' the answer for positive social change or a cynical western strategy for perpetuating inequality? Moving beyond an increasingly entrenched debate about the role of NGOs, this book reveals the practices and social relations through which ideas of development are concretely enacted.

Development beyond Politics: Aid, Activism and NGOs in Ghana (Non-Governmental Public Action)

Yarrow, Thomas

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This book is an exploration of how this remarkably efficient and familiar form of gathering operates, in different times and places, and how it comes to be recognised by those who experience or deploy it. 
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<li>Throws the spotlight on the epistemological and ontological basis of coming together through formal meetings of different kinds</li> <li>Demonstrates how meetings - socially and institutionally prescribed spaces for coming together - are important and ubiquitous organisational forms in various political, religious and economic settings </li> <li>Shows how meetings feature prominently in classic anthropological accounts, and in more contemporary ethnography, particularly in relation to studies of documents, organizations, policy, development, politics, and science and technology</li> </ul>

Meetings: Ethnographies of Organizational Process, Bureaucracy and Assembly (Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute Special Issue Book Series)

Politics & Social Sciences

Brown, Hannah

Reed, Adam

Anthropology

Wiley/Blackwell

The Object of Conservation: An Ethnography of Heritage Practice

Jones, Siân

Routledge

What is creativity? What is the relationship between work life and personal life? How is it possible to live truthfully in a world of contradiction and compromise? These deep and deeply personal questions spring to the fore in Thomas Yarrow's vivid exploration of the life of architects. Yarrow takes us inside the world of architects, showing us the anxiety, exhilaration, hope, idealism, friendship, conflict, and the personal commitments that feed these acts of creativity. 
Architects rethinks "creativity," demonstrating how it happens in everyday practice. It highlights how the pursuit of good architecture, relates to the pursuit of a good life in intimate and individually specific ways. And it reveals the surprising and routine social negotiations through which designs and buildings are actually made.

Architects: Portraits of a Practice (Expertise: Cultures and Technologies of Knowledge)

Cornell University Press

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