Amanda Lashaw
Biographic Data
| ID | 146740 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Amanda Lashaw |
| GIVEN NAMES | Amanda |
| FAMILY NAME | Lashaw |
| SIGNATURE | LASHAW A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Berkeley |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 24 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Cultures of Doing Good: Anthropologists and NGOs
How progressive culture resists critique: The impasse of NGO Studies
Ethnographies of NGO and nonprofit practices are increasingly focused on the social lives of middle-class liberals who significantly shape how societies recognize social suffering and its redress. At the same time, the boundaries between academic and NGO worlds are blurring ever more as ethnographers prioritize 'engaged' projects and as more doctoral students enter graduate school with NGO experience. This article addresses the distinctive dilemm…
The Radical Promise of Reformist Zeal: What Makes "Inquiry for Equity" Plausible
Education reform movements often promise more than they deliver. Why are such promises plausible in light of seemingly perpetual education reform? Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork based in a nonprofit education reform organization, this article explores the appeal of popular notions about "using data to close the racial achievement gap." It focuses on training institutes wherein passionate reformers made complex claims about the power of a progr…
Experiencing Imminent Justice: The Presence of Hope in a Movement for Equitable Schooling
Recent scholarship on the affective dimensions of social change has pointed toward hope as an ethically promising form of belonging. In this article, the articulation of hope in the context of a reform-oriented social movement provides the basis for interrogating the political promise of hope. The author examines the ascent of a movement for small, equitable schools in Oakland, California, to explore the hopes and aspirations of its most ardent a…
How progressive culture resists critique: The impasse of NGO Studies
Ethnographies of NGO and nonprofit practices are increasingly focused on the social lives of middle-class liberals who significantly shape how societies recognize social suffering and its redress. At the same time, the boundaries between academic and NGO worlds are blurring ever more as ethnographers prioritize 'engaged' projects and as more doctoral students enter graduate school with NGO experience. This article addresses the distinctive dilemm…
The Radical Promise of Reformist Zeal: What Makes "Inquiry for Equity" Plausible
Education reform movements often promise more than they deliver. Why are such promises plausible in light of seemingly perpetual education reform? Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork based in a nonprofit education reform organization, this article explores the appeal of popular notions about "using data to close the racial achievement gap." It focuses on training institutes wherein passionate reformers made complex claims about the power of a progr…
Experiencing Imminent Justice: The Presence of Hope in a Movement for Equitable Schooling
Recent scholarship on the affective dimensions of social change has pointed toward hope as an ethically promising form of belonging. In this article, the articulation of hope in the context of a reform-oriented social movement provides the basis for interrogating the political promise of hope. The author examines the ascent of a movement for small, equitable schools in Oakland, California, to explore the hopes and aspirations of its most ardent a…
Experiencing Imminent Justice: The Presence of Hope in a Movement for Equitable Schooling
Recent scholarship on the affective dimensions of social change has pointed toward hope as an ethically promising form of belonging. In this article, the articulation of hope in the context of a reform-oriented social movement provides the basis for interrogating the political promise of hope. The author examines the ascent of a movement for small, equitable schools in Oakland, California, to explore the hopes and aspirations of its most ardent a…
The Radical Promise of Reformist Zeal: What Makes "Inquiry for Equity" Plausible
Education reform movements often promise more than they deliver. Why are such promises plausible in light of seemingly perpetual education reform? Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork based in a nonprofit education reform organization, this article explores the appeal of popular notions about "using data to close the racial achievement gap." It focuses on training institutes wherein passionate reformers made complex claims about the power of a progr…
How progressive culture resists critique: The impasse of NGO Studies
Ethnographies of NGO and nonprofit practices are increasingly focused on the social lives of middle-class liberals who significantly shape how societies recognize social suffering and its redress. At the same time, the boundaries between academic and NGO worlds are blurring ever more as ethnographers prioritize 'engaged' projects and as more doctoral students enter graduate school with NGO experience. This article addresses the distinctive dilemm…
Cultures of Doing Good: Anthropologists and NGOs
Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Ethnography (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Power (physics (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (1 works) · Anthropology (1 works)