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Ethnographic Circulations

Space-Time Relations in the Worlds of Poverty Management

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ID4139962
AuthorsAnanya Roy (0000-0002-0706-3237, Department of City and Regional Planning, 228 Wurster #1850, Berkeley, CA 94720-1850, USA)
Year2012
Volume44
Issue1
Pages31-41
Publication date2012-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueEnvironment and Planning A Economy and Space (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0308-518X • E-ISSN: 1472-3409
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1068/a44180
OpenAlexW2102326552
LanguageEN
Citations received85
References cited31

This essay takes up the challenge of global ethnography. Using the case of poverty expertise and development capitalism, it presents an analysis of what may be understood as an ethnography of circulations. Building on the emergent research on policy mobilities, it calls for an ethnography of the apparatus or dispositif and its constitutive relations and practices. Here ethnography departs from ontologies of immersion and is instead concerned with critique as a mode of defamiliarization. Against the lament of anthropologists that such global ethnography may entail the loss of the subaltern, the essay presents a different ethnographic muse: middling technocrats who negotiate the apparatus of development and who embody the contradictions of market rule

Capitalism · Ethnography · Political science · Poverty · Sociology · Subaltern · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Water Governance and Infrastructure

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Citations per year6,07
Citation span2012 - 2026 (15)
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