Research Catalog

Title

The anthropology of power : empowerment and disempowerment in changing structures / edited by Angela Cheater.

Publication

London : New York : Routledge, 1999.

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Details

Additional Authors

Cheater, Angela P.

Description

ix, 213 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

"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.

Series Statement

ASA monographs ; 36

Uniform Title

A.S.A. monographs 36.

Subject

• Empowerment
• Marginality, Social
• Political participation
• Power (Social sciences)
• Social change

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Power in the postmodern era / Angela Cheater -- Empowering ambiguities / Wendy James -- The discursive space of schooling: on the theories of power and empowerment in multiculturalism and anti-racism / Daniel Yon -- 'Father did not answer that question': power, gender and globalisation in Europe / Sigridur Duna Kristmundsdottir -- The reach of the postcolonial state: development, empowerment/disempowerment and technocracy / Richard Werbner -- The guardians of power: biodiversity and multiculturality in Colombia / Peter Wade -- The dialectics of negation and negotiation in the anthropology of mineral resource development in Papua New Guinea / Colin Filer.
• Land and re-empowerment: 'The Waikato case' / Ngapare K. Hopa -- Indigenisation as empowerment? Gender and race in the empowerment discourse in Zimbabwe / Rudo Gaidzanwa -- Exploitation after Marx / Robert Layton -- Evading state control: political protest and technology in Saudi Arabia / Madawi Al-Rasheed -- Authority versus power: a view from social anthropology / Peter Skalník -- Speaking truth to power? Some problems using ethnographic methods to influence the formulation of housing policy in South Africa / Andrew Spiegel, Vanessa Watson and Peter Wilkinson -- Machiavellian empowerment and disempowerment-century Ethiopia / Manuel João Ramos.

ISBN

• 0415193885 (hb)
• 0415193893 (pb)

LCCN

^^^98027573^

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library