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Beyond the looking glass? ‘Aidland’ reconsidered

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posted on 2023-06-08, 16:12 authored by Elizabeth HarrisonElizabeth Harrison
This paper engages with an emerging genre in anthropology’s engagement with international development – writing about ‘Aidland’ which focus attention on the lives, motivations and personalities of ‘development professionals’. It suggests that there are two possible problems with the growing popularity of work on Aidland: first, that it rests on a reified and dated view of the worlds of aid and development; second, that an ethnographic focus on development professionals may serve to divert attention to the significance of both the politics and the material effects of development intervention and the relations of power within which they are embedded.

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Publication status

  • Published

Journal

Critique of Anthropology

ISSN

0308-275X

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Issue

3

Volume

33

Page range

263-279

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  • Anthropology Publications

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Peer reviewed?

  • Yes

Legacy Posted Date

2013-10-29

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