5-0755 LEGACIES OF THE PAST, PROMISES OF THE FUTURE: CAPACITY BUILDING AS A PRACTICE OF CONTEMPORARY DEVELOPMENT, INTERVENTION AND GOVERNANCE.

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Saturday, November 19, 2011: 13:45-17:30

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This session would be of particular interest to:
Practicing and Applied Anthropologists, Teachers of Anthropology in Community Colleges, Students

Organizers: Rachel Douglas-Jones (University of Durham) and Justin R Shaffner (University of Cambridge)

Chairs: Rachel Douglas-Jones (University of Durham) and Justin R Shaffner (University of Cambridge)

Discussants: Alberto Corsin Jimenez (Spanish National Research Council) and Susan A Wright (Danish School of Education, Aarhus University Denmark)

13:45

“Trapped In the Unilinear Path: The NGOs’ Maendeleo Discourse In Kenya.”

Felistas Njoki Osotsi (University of Virginia)

14:00

Political Bodies: The Awkward Relationship Between 'politics' and Service Provision In Malian Health Care

Harriet Frances Boulding (School of Oriental and African Studies)

14:15

El Alto, Problem City: The Politics ofCapacitaciónfor Conflict Resolution In Bolivia

Susan H Ellison (Brown)

14:30

Professionalizing Persons: Building Capacity In Post-Earthquake Haiti

Kristin LaHatte (University of Virginia)

14:45

Building Capacity, Extracting Labor: The Management of Emotion In NGOs

Kathleen O'Reilly (Texas A&M University)

15:00

Colonising the Whiteman’s World: The Makushi Experience In NGO Building and Its Relationship with the Nation State

Lucas Carneiro de Carvalho (University of Virginia)

15:15

Discussant

Susan A Wright (Danish School of Education, Aarhus University Denmark)

15:30

Break

15:45

Learning to Live Together: Capacity-Building and Social Shifts Among the Amahuaca of Eastern Peru

Christopher Erik Hewlett (University of St. Andrews)

16:00

Against the "Self-Centered" In Capacity Building

George Fitzpatrick Mentore (University of Virginia)

16:15

An Addition Which Subtracts? Building Persons and Systems of Capacity In Asian Biomedical Research Ethics

Rachel Douglas-Jones (University of Durham)

16:30

Building Capacity, Building Love: SOS Children's Villages In Australia and Russia

Viktoryia A Kalesnikava (University of Virginia)

16:45

Capacities Diminished: The Body, Environment, and Ontological Predation In Papua New Guinea

Justin R Shaffner (University of Cambridge)

17:00

Capacity Building As Ontological Disassemblage In Amazonia

Laura H Mentore (University of Mary Washington)

17:15

Discussant

Alberto Corsin Jimenez (Spanish National Research Council)

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