Download or read book Anthropologie de l aide humanitaire et du d veloppement written by Laëtitia Atlani-Duault and published by Armand Colin. This book was released on 2009-03-25 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lorsque les aventuriers de l'Arche de Zoé veulent agir pour le bonheur des autres, c'est l'aide humanitaire dans son ensemble qui est mise en accusation. Au-delà du déchaînement médiatique, se joue là pour l'anthropologie la figure bien connue de la rencontre avec l'autre qu'il s'agit d'« aider ». Dans ce contexte troublé, ce livre vient à point nommé pour exposer ce que peut être, aujourd'hui, une anthropologie de l'aide humanitaire et du développement, entre engagement et distance critique. Un premier chapitre en pose le cadre théorique, grâce à une démarche à la fois historique et prospective. Les chapitres suivants rassemblent des anthropologues de nationalités multiples qui se penchent chacun sur un domaine d'intervention et de recherche particulier : les réfugiés, le monde rural, l'environnement, l'assainissement urbain, la santé, l'alimentation, ou le genre. Études de cas sur divers continents, revues de la littérature internationale et analyses approfondies offrent au lecteur des clés pour comprendre les pratiques et les enjeux de la recherche anthropologique, tout en l'invitant à découvrir comment, sur le terrain, se déploient l'aide humanitaire et les interventions de développement. Plaçant au centre de ses préoccupations les hommes et les femmes en action qui font, au quotidien, leurs sociétés, leurs cultures et leur développement, cette anthropologie de l'aide humanitaire et du développement relève le défi de mettre ces mondes : souvent divergents et conflictuels : en relations, afin de leur donner un sens et une forme sur lesquels il est possible d'agir.
Download or read book Au bonheur des autres written by Laëtitia Atlani-Duault and published by Armand Colin. This book was released on 2009-04-22 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Une ethnologue chez les humanitaires, non pour les aider à mieux comprendre les populations, mais pour les étudier, eux, de l’intérieur. Voilà l’objet premier de ce livre. Pour cela, l’auteur a travaillé, pendant plus de dix ans, au sein d’une organisation internationale d’aide humanitaire et de développement, tant à New York et à Genève qu’en Asie centrale et en Transcaucasie post-soviétiques. Plongée au cœur de l’arène, elle en a décrypté les enjeux, les lignes de force et les tensions. L’ouvrage présente les principaux résultats de ce travail : une réflexion sur l’anthropologie de l’aide humanitaire et du développement, et des pistes pour son renouvellement théorique et méthodologique. Elle éclaire aussi d’un jour nouveau l’envers des supposées révolutions « spontanées » qui ont ébranlé les anciennes provinces de l’Union soviétique, concrétisant, certes, leurs aspirations démocratiques, mais dont les conditions ont été préparées de longue date. Dès la fin de l’URSS, les agences d’aide humanitaire et de développement ont massivement aidé à la création puis au renforcement des ONG locales, pour un large éventail d’actions (éducation, défense de la biodiversité, prévention de l’épidémie de VIH/SIDA – située au coeur de l’ouvrage) qui s’inscrivent dans une ligne d’approche commune : la construction d’une morale partagée. Cette analyse, de première publication en 2005, traduite notamment en anglais, est proposée ici dans une version actualisée.
Download or read book Faire de l anthropologie written by Laurent Vidal and published by La Découverte. This book was released on 2020-10-08 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Qu'est-ce que " faire de l'anthropologie ", comment " être anthropologue ", aujourd'hui ? Une réflexion et un témoignage d'acteur de terrain, autour d'un cycle de rechzerfches sur les questions de santé en Afrique. Qu'est-ce que " faire de l'anthropologie ", comment " être anthropologue " aujourd'hui ? Pour répondre à ces questions, cet ouvrage s'intéresse à la " fabrique " de l'anthropologie : à partir de recherches menées dans le champ de la santé en Afrique, il invite en effet le lecteur à comprendre comment une recherche est imaginée, mise en place, suivie mois après et mois et conclue, cela en se penchant sur les discussions et négociations engagées avec ses différents acteurs (collègues, populations " enquêtées ", décideurs...). Partant de là, sont alors progressivement interrogées des préoccupations qui sont finalement au cœur de la pratique de toute anthropologie : la collaboration avec d'autres disciplines, la négociation de sa place dans le " monde de l'intervention " - ici la santé -, la dimension scientifique de sa démarche, soucieuse de comprendre l'existant mais aussi d'agir sur lui. Le sida, la tuberculose, le paludisme ou la santé maternelle, tout comme les rapports à la maladie et les pratiques des soignants qui sont au cœur des recherches décryptées, permettent alors de dessiner une anthropologie critique des projets de recherche qui rend indissociable le regard sur l'autre (qu'il soit médecin, malade, décideur ou chercheur) et une attention à ses propres choix de chercheur (en matière de méthode, d'objet et de terrain). C'est à cette tentation-là - difficile à atteindre, jamais définitivement acquise - que l'anthropologie est invitée à céder.
Download or read book Engager l anthropologie pour le d veloppement et le changement social written by Sten Hagberg and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2013 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present APAD Bulletin contains a selection of papers presented at the APAD 2010 Conference in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, on the theme "Engaging Anthropology for Development and Social Change: Practices, Discourses and Ethics." Anthropological engagements face important challenges at the interface of research and development. The different ways by which anthropologists take on societal problems - either in their research capacity, as development experts, as activists, or as citizen - are inscribed in a longstanding debate. In this APAD Bulletin, the contributors deal with the central questions of how and under which conditions anthropology engages with society. The papers range from epistemological reflections and methodological queries to the anthropology of per diem and of public health, as well as to practical problems confronting anthropologists engaged in development cooperation. [PLEASE NOTE: This volume's Introduction is in English text. The remaining text is French language text only. There is no English translation.] (Series: APAD Bulletin - Vol. 34)
Download or read book Humanitarian Aid in Post Soviet Countries written by Laetitia Atlani-Duault and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-01-07 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anthropologist among aid workers. Her objective: to study that exotic tribe, humanitarian and development workers, along with their state and non-state partners, as they "export democracy" to post-soviet countries of Central Asia and the Caucasus. Her method: to join the tribe for ten years. From New York to Alma-Ata, by way of Geneva and Baku, Laëtitia Atlani-Duault provides both an understanding of the individuals working in the field and a critical analysis of the sweeping political implications of NGO activities. A focus on supposedly "de-politicized" policy areas (notably the prevention of HIV/AIDS epidemic) provides wider insights into the objectives and practices of international aid workers in countries beset by rising poverty, drug trafficking, prostitution, and decaying education and health services. The author also provides a rich canvas of human stories, from the "workshops" in which diametrically opposed political approaches often clash to the occasional small triumphs in which effective public health interventions are worked out. This timely book will be of great interest not only to scholars of post-soviet countries, but also to those interested in humanitarian and development aid worldwide. It will also be relevant for the study of the anthropology of development, as well as medical and political anthropology.
Download or read book Anthropologie et d veloppement written by Jean-Pierre Olivier de Sardan and published by KARTHALA Editions. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Depuis 1960, année de leur indépendance, les pays d'Afrique ont connu plus de 30 ans de " développement ". Cependant les résultats n'ont pas été à la hauteur des espérances et le mot " développement " a besoin lui-même d'approches fondées sur l'analyse et le doute. Comment, aujourd'hui, décrire et comprendre les relations multiples qui existent entre les institutions de développement (publiques ou privées) et les populations locales auxquelles elles s'adressent ? La socio-anthropologie considère le " développement " comme une forme particulière de changement social, qu'un ensemble complexe d'intervenants (ONG, agences nationales ou internationales, experts, coopérants, techniciens...) cherche à impulser auprès de " groupes-cibles " eux-mêmes divers et évoluant selon les dynamiques propres. Ces phénomènes sont particulièrement importants en Afrique, en raison du rôle qu'y jouent les flux d'" aide " et les " projets " de tous ordres. La socio-anthropologie du développement peut contribuer, pour une part modeste mais réelle, à améliorer la qualité des services que les institutions de développement proposent aux populations, en permettant une meilleure prise en compte des dynamiques locales. Pour ce faire, il faut éviter une anthropologie au rabais, enfermée dans le ghetto de l'expertise et de la consultance. Il ne peut y avoir de " socio-anthropologie appliquée au développement " sans une " socio-anthropologie fondamentale du développement ", dont la compétence en matière de recherche empirique se fonde sur la maîtrise de notions et de concepts situés au cœur des sciences sociales contemporaines et qui se démarque des rhétoriques et des idéologies développementistes. Logiques, rationalités, représentations, stéréotypes, stratégies, innovations, modes d'action économique, détournements, dispositifs, savoirs techniques populaires, médiations, négociations, courtages, arènes... Ces mots clés scandent les analyses ici proposées, alimentées par une abondante littérature comparée et étayées par des exemples de terrain, et dessinent un ouvrage de référence sur le sujet, qui, jusqu'à ce jour, faisait complètement défaut en France.
Download or read book Disasterland written by Sandrine Revet and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-04-28 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyses the making of the international world of ‘natural’ disasters by its professionals. Through a long-term ethnographic study of this arena, the author unveils the various elements that are necessary for the construction of an international world: a collective narrative, a shared language, and standardized practices. The book analyses the two main framings that these professionals use to situate themselves with regards to a disaster: preparedness and resilience, arguing that the making of the world of ‘natural’ disasters reveals how heterogeneous, conflicting, and sometimes competing elements are put together.
Download or read book Shaping Policy Agendas written by David Dolowitz and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2020-01-31 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating book investigates the strategic importance of the production and dissemination of expertise in the activities of the international organizations (IOs) that have come to symbolize the dominance of the Western political and economic order.
Download or read book Medical Humanitarianism written by Sharon Abramowitz and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2015-10-15 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medical Humanitarianism provides comparative ethnographies of the moral, practical, and policy implications of modern medical humanitarian practice. It offers twelve vivid case studies that challenge readers to reach a more critical and compassionate understanding of humanitarian assistance.
Download or read book The Politics of Aid to Burma written by Anne Decobert and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-11-19 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For over sixty years, conflict between state forces and armed ethnic groups was ongoing in parts of the borderlands of Burma. Ethnic minority communities were subjected to systematic and widespread abuses by an increasingly complex patchwork of armed state and non-state actors. Populations in more remote and disputed border areas typically had little to no access to even basic healthcare and education services. As part of its counter-insurgency campaign, the military state also historically restricted international humanitarian access to civilian populations in unstable border areas. It was in this context that "cross-border aid" to Burma had developed, as an alternative mechanism for channelling assistance to populations denied aid through more conventional systems. Yet by the late 2000s, national and international changes had significant impacts on an aid debate, which had important political and ethical implications. Through an ethnographic study of a cross-border aid organisation working on the Thailand-Burma border, this book focuses on the political and ethical dilemmas of "humanitarian government". It explores the ways in which aid systems come to be defined as legitimate or illegitimate, humanitarian or "un-humanitarian", in an international context that has witnessed the multiplication of often-conflicting humanitarian systems and models. It examines how an "embodied history" of violence can shape the worldviews and actions of local humanitarian actors, as well as institutions created to mitigate human suffering. It goes on to look at the complex and often-invisible webs of local organisations, international NGOs, donors, armed groups and other actors, which can develop in a cross-border and extra-legal context – a context where competing constructions of systems as legitimate or illegitimate are highlighted. Exploring the history of humanitarianism from the local aid perspective of Burma, this book will be of interest to students and scholars of Southeast Asian Studies, Anthropology of Humanitarian Aid and Development Studies.
Download or read book Cash Transfers in Context written by Jean-Pierre Olivier de Sardan and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2018-09-07 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marginal in status a decade ago, cash transfer programs have become the preferred channel for delivering emergency aid or tackling poverty in low- and middle-income countries. While these programs have had positive effects, they are typical of top-down development interventions in that they impose on local contexts standardized norms and procedures regarding conditionality, targeting, and delivery. This book sheds light on the crucial importance of these contexts and the many unpredicted consequences of cash transfer programs worldwide - detailing how the latter are used by actors to pursue their own strategies, and how external norms are reinterpreted, circumvented, and contested by local populations.
Download or read book The Routledge Companion to Gender and Borderlands written by Zalfa Feghali and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-10-23 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Companion to Gender and Borderlands maps the relationship between gender and borderlands at a global scale and sets the agenda for developing a global composite field of gender and borderlands studies. This interdisciplinary collection seeks to understand the complex nexus at which gender and the borderlands intersect, modelling radical relationality at epistemological, ontological, and activist levels. Going beyond border studies’ frequent site at the U.S.–Mexico Border, this book examines the power relations of borderlands as they play out in, influence, and reflect gender dynamics. Contributors draw on case studies from around the world, and their chapters span diverse fields from anthropology, literature, and history, to political science, religious studies, sociology, and the arts. The Routledge Companion to Gender and Borderlands is an indispensable resource for scholars and students engaged in border studies, gender studies, and the wide range of interlocking disciplines that inform and enrich these fields.
Download or read book Under Development Gender written by C. Verschuur and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-30 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite various decades of research and claim-making by feminist scholars and movements, gender remains an overlooked area in development studies. Looking at key issues in development studies through the prisms of gender and feminism, the authors demonstrate that gender is an indispensable tool for social change.
Download or read book Routledge Handbook of International Organization written by Bob Reinalda and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-06-07 with total page 577 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Handbook brings together scholars whose essays discuss significant issues with regard to international organization as a process and international organizations as institutions. Although the focus is on intergovernmental organizations (IGOs), non-governmental organizations (NGOs) are discussed where relevant. The handbook is divided into six parts: Documentation, Data Sets and Sources International Secretariats as Bureaucracies Actors within International Bureaucracies Processes within International Bureaucracies Challenges to International Organizations, and Expanding International Architectures. The state-of-the-art articles are meant to encourage current and future generations of scholars to enjoy working in and further exploiting the field and are also of great interest to practitioners of international organization and global governance
Download or read book Humanitarian Action and Ethics written by Ayesha Ahmad and published by Zed Books Ltd.. This book was released on 2018-06-15 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From natural disaster areas to conflict zones, humanitarian workers today find themselves operating in diverse and difficult environments. While humanitarian work has always presented unique ethical challenges, such efforts are now further complicated by the impact of globalization, the escalating refugee crisis, and mounting criticisms of established humanitarian practice. Featuring contributions from humanitarian practitioners, health professionals, and social and political scientists, this book explores the question of ethics in modern humanitarian work, drawing on the lived experience of humanitarian workers themselves. Its essential case studies cover humanitarian work in countries ranging from Haiti and South Sudan to Syria and Iraq, and address issues such as gender based violence, migration, and the growing phenomenon of ‘volunteer tourism’. Together, these contributions offer new perspectives on humanitarian ethics, as well as insight into how such ethical considerations might inform more effective approaches to humanitarian work.
Download or read book Population Studies and Development from Theory to Fieldwork written by Véronique Petit and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-10-30 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses major population and development issues: fertility and reproductive health, migrations, gender, education, poverty and inequalities. To that aim it revisits and considerably enlarges Kingsley Davis’ 1963 theory of change and response, using interdisciplinary methodologies. On the basis of four decades of field research (1985-2015), it questions the rationality of the actors, how culture shapes socio-demographic behaviours, in a context of modernity and globalisation. More specifically, it casts new light on the interactions of individuals, families, networks and local communities with the State and its population policy.
Download or read book Public Policy Lessons from the AIDS Response in Africa written by Fred Eboko and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-10-29 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Public Policy Lessons from the AIDS Response in Africa examines how the interplay between national state dynamics in Africa and the global political arena has shaped the global AIDS response, and in this context develops a framework for analysing public policy action more broadly in contemporary Africa. By applying comparative political sociology to AIDS public action, this book identifies four political models that are applicable to public initiatives. Fred Eboko goes on to test these in other domains – namely, the malaria and tuberculosis health subsectors, and the education and environment sectors. By articulating global and national connections and contributing a critical perspective grounded in African scholarship and French political science, the author builds a bold and ambitious framework with the potential to enable coherent and effective public policy action in Africa. This book will be of interest to scholars and students of public health, global health, political science, and development studies, as well as policy-level practitioners in the areas of global health and development.
