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| Genre/Form: | Aufsatzsammlung Congresses |
|---|---|
| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Angela P Cheater |
| ISBN: | 0415193885 9780415193887 0415193893 9780415193894 9780203427057 020342705X |
| OCLC Number: | 39313529 |
| Description: | ix, 213 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | 1. Power in the postmodern era / Angela Cheater -- 2. Empowering ambiguities / Wendy James -- 3. The discursive space of schooling: on the theories of power and empowerment in multiculturalism and anti-racism / Daniel Yon -- 4. 'Father did not answer that question': power, gender and globalisation in Europe / Sigridur Duna Kristmundsdottir -- 5. The reach of the postcolonial state: development, empowerment/disempowerment and technocracy / Richard Werbner -- 6. The guardians of power: biodiversity and multiculturality in Colombia / Peter Wade -- 7. The dialectics of negation and negotiation in the anthropology of mineral resource development in Papua New Guinea / Colin Filer -- 8. Land and re-empowerment: 'The Waikato case' / Ngapare K. Hopa |
| Series Title: | A.S.A. monographs, 36. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Angela Cheater. |
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Abstract:
"The Anthropology of Power presents case studies from a wide range of societies and discusses what is actually happening when people talk about 'empowering' others. The contributors question whether power is actually being transferred to the powerless, or whether this is a delusion." "This collection draws on ethnographic material from Europe, the Middle East, Australasia, Africa and the Americas, exploring how traditionally disempowered groups gain influence in postcolonial and multicultural settings, from civil war to new communication technologies, from religious imperialism to transnational mining investments. It surveys the relationships between empowerment and economic development, gender and environmentalism. The contributors confront post-Foucauldian theoretical issues on the nature, distribution and balance of power, and ask whether the rhetoric of 'empowerment' actually masks a lack of change in established power relations."--Jacket.
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