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Ethnographies of Aid and Development: a critical reflection

Using aspects of Jeremy Gould’s work as a starting point, this article is a reflection on the possibilities and challenges of theoretically- informed, multi scalar ethnographies for a critical understanding of aid and development. An ethnographic imagination provides something of a privileged entry point to the ‘unpredictability’ of development practices and encounters. Through an exploration of the author’s own ethnographic interventions, the text addresses issues of positionality and reflexivity. Ethnographic writing is viewed as a work of translation, seeking to grasp the ways in which socio- economic, political, administrative and cultural practices are ‘re- transcribed’, helping to understand development as deeply conjunctural, contestable and, therefore, changeable.

ethnography ; aid ; development ; positionally ; scale ; translation ; Academic Search Premier

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