David Mosse is Professor of Social Anthropology, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. He has also worked for Oxfam in south India, as a social development adviser for DFID, and as a consultant for various international development agencies. Recent books include Cultivating Development: An ethnography of aid policy and practice (2005); The Aid Effect: Giving and Governing in International development (2005, ed. with D. Lewis); and Development Translators and Brokers (2006, ed. with D. Lewis).

List of Contributors

Preface and Acknowledgements

Chapter 1. Introduction: The Anthropology of Expertise and Professionals in International Development
David Mosse

Chapter 2. Calculating Compassion: Accounting for Some Categorical Practices in International Development
Maia Green

Chapter 3. Rendering Society Technical: Government Through Community and the Ethnographic Turn at the World Bank in Indonesia
Tania Murray Li

Chapter 4. Social Analysis as Corporate Product: Non-Economists/Anthropologists at Work at the World Bank in Washington DC
David Mosse

Chapter 5. The World Bank's Expertise: Observant Participation in the World Development Report 2006, Equity and Development
Desmond McNeill and Asun Lera [...]

Chapter 6. World Health and Nepal: Producing Internationals, Healthy Citizenship and the Cosmopolitan
Ian Harper

Chapter 7. The Sociality of International Aid and Policy Convergence
Rosalind Eyben

Chapter 8. Parochial Cosmopolitanism and the Power of Nostalgia
Dinah Rajak and Jock Stirrat

Chapter 9. Tidy Concepts, Messy Lives: Defining Tensions in the Domestic and Overseas Careers of UK Non-governmental Professionals
David Lewis

Chapter 10. Coda: Alice in Aidland, A Seriously Satirical Allegory
Raymond Apthorpe

Bibliography

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