The Anthropology of Development and Globalization: From Classical Political Economy to Contemporary Neoliberalism

416 Pages·2005·2.18 MB·English

by  Marc Edelman

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The Anthropology of Development and Globalization
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The Anthropology
of Development
and Globalization
From Classical Political Economy
to Contemporary Neoliberalism
Edited by
Marc Edelman and
Angelique Haugerud
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Contents
Acknowledgments viii
Introduction:TheAnthropologyofDevelopmentandGlobalization 1
MarcEdelmanandAngeliqueHaugerud
PartI ClassicalFoundationsandDebates 75
Introduction 77
1 OftheAccumulationofCapital,orofProductiveand
UnproductiveLabor 87
AdamSmith
2 ManifestooftheCommunistParty 91
KarlMarxandFrederickEngels
3 TheEvolutionoftheCapitalisticSpirit 95
MaxWeber
4 TheSelf-RegulatingMarketandtheFictitiousCommodities:
Labor,Land,andMoney 99
KarlPolanyi
PartII WhatisDevelopment?20th-CenturyDebates 105
Introduction 107
5 TheRiseandFallofDevelopmentTheory 109
ColinLeys
6 TheHistoryandPoliticsofDevelopmentKnowledge 126
FrederickCooperandRandallPackard
7 AnthropologyandItsEvilTwin:‘‘Development’’intheConstitution
ofaDiscipline 140
JamesFerguson
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vi CONTENTS
PartIII FromDevelopmenttoGlobalization 155
Introduction 157
8 Globalization,Dis-integration,Re-organization:
TheTransformationsofViolence 160
JonathanFriedman
9 TheGlobalizationMovement:SomePointsofClarification 169
DavidGraeber
10 GlobalizationAfterSeptember11 173
SaskiaSassen
11 MillennialCapitalismandtheCultureofNeoliberalism 177
JeanComaroffandJohnL.Comaroff
PartIV Consumption,Markets,Culture 189
Introduction 191
12 AgriculturalInvolutionRevisited 194
CliffordGeertz
13 NontraditionalCommoditiesandStructuralAdjustmentinAfrica 206
PeterD.LittleandCatherineS.Dolan
14 MarketMentalities,IronSatelliteDishes,andContestedCultural
Developmentalism 216
LouisaSchein
15 ATheoryofVirtualism:ConsumptionasNegation 224
DanielMiller
16 SeeingCultureasaBarrier 232
EmmaCreweandElizabethHarrison
PartV Gender,Work,andNetworks 235
Introduction 237
17 ‘‘Men-streaming’’Gender?QuestionsforGenderandDevelopment
PolicyintheTwenty-firstCentury 240
SylviaChantandMatthewC.Gutmann
18 DeterritorializationandWorkplaceCulture 250
JaneL.Collins
19 TheNetworkInsideOut 262
AnneliseRiles
PartVI Nature,Environment,andBiotechnology 269
Introduction 271
20 WhoseWoodsAreThese?Counter-MappingForestTerritories
inKalimantan,Indonesia 273
NancyLeePeluso
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CONTENTS vii
21 MisreadingAfrica’sForestHistory 282
JamesFairheadandMelissaLeach
22 ColonialEncountersinPostcolonialContexts:PatentingIndigenous
DNAandtheHumanGenomeDiversityProject 292
HilaryCunningham
PartVII InsideDevelopmentInstitutions 301
Introduction 303
23 AdvocacyResearchandtheWorldBank:PropositionsforDiscussion 306
JonathanFox
24 DevelopmentNarratives,OrMakingtheBestofBlueprintDevelopment 313
EmeryM.Roe
25 TheSocialOrganizationoftheIMF’sMissionWork 323
RichardHarper
PartVIII DevelopmentAlternatives,AlternativestoDevelopment 335
Introduction 337
26 ImaginingaPost-DevelopmentEra 341
ArturoEscobar
27 BeyondDevelopment? 352
KatyGardnerandDavidLewis
28 VillageIntellectualsandtheChallengeofPoverty 360
ElizabethIsichei
29 Kerala:RadicalReformasDevelopmentinanIndianState 368
RichardW.FrankeandBarbaraH.Chasin
30 WhatWasSocialism,andWhyDidItFall? 373
KatherineVerdery
31 ‘‘DisappearingthePoor?’’ACritiqueoftheNewWisdomsofSocial
DemocracyinanAgeofGlobalization 382
JohnGledhill
Index 391
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Acknowledgments
Our understanding of development and globalization owes much to conversations with
interlocutorsinAfrica,LatinAmerica,NorthAmerica,andEurope–academics,students,
farmers, activists, government officials, politicians, and NGO personnel. Portions of the
Introductiondrawontheeditors’co-authoredchapter,‘‘Development’’inACompanionto
theAnthropologyofPolitics,editedbyDavidNugentandJoanVincent(Blackwell,2004).
Weareparticularlyindebtedforhelpfulcriticismsandsuggestionsgenerouslyprovidedby
Laura Ahearn, Sara Berry,Michael Chibnik,GeorgeDeMartino, JamesFerguson, Lesley
Gill, Ilene Grabel, Maia Green, Ed Hartman, Frederick Klaits, Nicholas Jackson, Jackie
Klopp, Micaela di Leonardo, Peter D. Little, Dillon Mahoney, Sarasij Majumder, Noelle
Mole,DonnaL.Perry,LouisaSchein,ParkerShipton,K.Sivaramakrishnan,WendyWeis-
man,andthe2002–03seminarparticipantsinRutgersUniversity’sCenterfortheCritical
AnalysisofContemporaryCulture.Weappreciateaswellthediscerningcommentsoffered
by anonymous referees of the original prospectus and proposed contents list. Sara Berry,
MichaelChibnikandK.Sivaramakrishnankindlyreadanearlyfinalversionoftheentire
introduction and we thank them for commenting so helpfully and so promptly at that
crucialstage.IthasbeenadelighttoworkwithJaneHuber,oureditoratBlackwell,and
Parker Shipton, the series editor. Their fine editorial judgment and intellectual acumen
havemade this abetter book. Itsshortcomingsare,ofcourse,attributableto thevolume
editorsalone.
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