Hope and Insufficiency - by Rachel Douglas-Jones & Justin Shaffner (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"A process through which skills, knowledge, and resources are expanded, capacity building, remains a tantalizing and pervasive concept throughout the field of anthropology, though it has received little in the way of critical analysis. By exploring the concept's role in a variety of different settings including government lexicons, religious organizations, environmental campaigns, biomedical training, and fieldwork from around the globe, Hope and Insufficiency seeks to question the histories, assumptions, intentions, and enactments that have led to the ubiquity of capacity building, thereby developing a much-needed critical purchase on its persuasive power"--<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p> A process through which skills, knowledge, and resources are expanded, capacity building, remains a tantalizing and pervasive concept throughout the field of anthropology, though it has received little in the way of critical analysis. By exploring the concept's role in a variety of different settings including government lexicons, religious organizations, environmental campaigns, biomedical training, and fieldwork from around the globe, <em>Hope and Insufficiency</em> seeks to question the histories, assumptions, intentions, and enactments that have led to the ubiquity of capacity building, thereby developing a much-needed critical purchase on its persuasive power.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p> <strong>Justin Shaffner</strong> is a Research Associate at the Center for Social Solutions at the University of Michigan where he focuses on issues related to the future of work and global commodity chains. He is editor (with Huon Wardle) of <em>Cosmopolitics: The Collective Papers of the Open Anthropology Cooperative, Volume 1</em> (OAC Press, 2017); and co-founder of <em>Hau: Journal of Ethnographic Theory</em>.</p>
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