Hope and Insufficiency

Zusatztext

<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 concepts 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>

Autorenportrait

<p><strong>Rachel Douglas-Jones</strong> is Associate Professor at the IT University of Copenhagen, where she is currently the PI of Moving Data- Moving People, a study of emergent social credit systems in China through the lens of trust. Her recent publications include Committee as Witness (<em>The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology</em>, 2021) and she is the editor (with Antonia Walford and Nick Seaver) of Towards an Anthropology of Data (<em>JRAI</em>, 2021)</p>

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