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5-0755 LEGACIES OF THE PAST, PROMISES OF THE FUTURE: CAPACITY BUILDING AS A PRACTICE OF CONTEMPORARY DEVELOPMENT, INTERVENTION AND GOVERNANCE.
Saturday, November 19, 2011: 13:45-17:30

Abstract not available in preliminary program.

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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