James Ferguson

Development, it is generally assumed, is good and necessary, and in its name the West has intervened, implementing all manner of projects in the impoverished regions of the world. When these projects fail, as they do with astonishing regularity, they nonetheless produce a host of regular and unacknowledged effects, including the expansion of bureaucratic state power and the translation of the political realities of poverty and powerlessness into "technical" problems awaiting solution by "development" agencies and experts. It is the political intelligibility of these effects, along with the process that produces them, that this book seeks to illuminate through a detailed case study of the workings of the "development" industry in one country, Lesotho, and in one "development" project. Using an anthropological approach grounded in the work of Foucault, James Ferguson analyzes the institutional framework within which such projects are crafted and the nature of "development discourse," revealing how it is that, despite all the "expertise" that goes into formulating development projects, they nonetheless often demonstrate a startling ignorance of the historical and political realities of the locale they are intended to help. In a close examination of the attempted implementation of the Thaba-Tseka project in Lesotho, Ferguson shows how such a misguided approach plays out, how, in fact, the "development" apparatus in Lesotho acts as an "anti-politics machine," everywhere whisking political realities out of sight and all the while performing, almost unnoticed, its own pre-eminently political operation of strengthening the state presence in the local region.James Ferguson is an associate professor of anthropology at the University of California at Irvine.

"development," Depoliticization, and Bureaucratic Power in Lesotho

The Anti-politics Machine

In Give a Man a Fish James Ferguson examines the rise of social welfare programs in southern Africa, in which states make cash payments to their low income citizens. More than thirty percent of South Africa's population receive such payments, even as pundits elsewhere proclaim the neoliberal death of the welfare state. These programs' successes at reducing poverty under conditions of mass unemployment, Ferguson argues, provide an opportunity for rethinking contemporary capitalism and for developing new forms of political mobilization. Interested in an emerging "politics of distribution," Ferguson shows how new demands for direct income payments (including so-called "basic income") require us to reexamine the relation between production and distribution, and to ask new questions about markets, livelihoods, labor, and the future of progressive politics.

Reflections on the New Politics of Distribution

Give a Man a Fish

Duke University Press

Akhil Gupta

Anthropology has traditionally relied on a spatially localized society or culture as its object of study. The essays in Culture, Power, Place demonstrate how in recent years this anthropological convention and its attendant assumptions about identity and cultural difference have undergone a series of important challenges. In light of increasing mass migration and the transnational cultural flows of a late capitalist, postcolonial world, the contributors to this volume examine shifts in anthropological thought regarding issues of identity, place, power, and resistance. This collection of both new and well-known essays begins by critically exploring the concepts of locality and community; first, as they have had an impact on contemporary global understandings of displacement and mobility, and, second, as they have had a part in defining identity and subjectivity itself. With sites of discussion ranging from a democratic Spain to a Puerto Rican barrio in North Philadelphia, from Burundian Hutu refugees in Tanzania to Asian landscapes in rural California, from the silk factories of Hangzhou to the long-sought-after home of the Palestinians, these essays examine the interplay between changing schemes of categorization and the discourses of difference on which these concepts are based. The effect of the placeless mass media on our understanding of place—and the forces that make certain identities viable in the world and others not—are also discussed, as are the intertwining of place-making, identity, and resistance as they interact with the meaning and consumption of signs. Finally, this volume offers a self-reflective look at the social and political location of anthropologists in relation to the questions of culture, power, and place—the effect of their participation in what was once seen as their descriptions of these constructions. Contesting the classical idea of culture as the shared, the agreed upon, and the orderly, Culture, Power, Place is an important intervention in the disciplines of anthropology and cultural studies. Contributors. George E. Bisharat, John Borneman, Rosemary J. Coombe, Mary M. Crain, James Ferguson, Akhil Gupta, Kristin Koptiuch, Karen Leonard, Richard Maddox, Lisa H. Malkki, John Durham Peters, Lisa Rofel

Explorations in Critical Anthropology

Culture, Power, Place

DK Eyewitness Top 10 Dominican Republic travel guide will lead you straight to the best attractions the Dominican Republic has to offer. Whether you�re looking for stunning beaches along the spectacular Dominican Republic coastline, world class golf courses, vibrant festivals, lively nightlife and casinos in the Dominican Republic, or find the best attraction for all the family; this pocket-size travel guide is packed with essential information for every corner of the this sensational region. Whether you are travelling first class or on a limited budget, there are dozens of Top 10 lists - from the Top 10 best Dominican Republic beaches and secluded bays to the Top 10 Dominican Republic restaurants and hotels, the Top 10 best walking trails and adventure activities in the Dominican Republic, and to save you time and money there's even a list of the Top 10 Things to Avoid! The Top 10 Dominican Republic travel guide is packed with beautiful illustrations of the greatest Dominican Republic attractions, providing the insider knowledge every visitor needs to know. Your guide to the Top 10 best of everything in the Dominican Republic.

Dominican Republic

DK Eyewitness Top 10 Travel Guide

Kevin Laffan

Divided Loyalties

DIVA collection of Ferguson's essays that bring the question of Africa into the center of current debates on globalization, modernity, and emerging forms of world order./div

Africa in the Neoliberal World Order

Global Shadows

Excerpt from Astronomy Explained Upon Sir Isaac Newton's Principles, and Made Easy to Those Who Have Not Studied Mathematics: To Which Are Added, a Plain Method of Finding the Distances of All the Planets From the Sun, by the Transit of Venus Over the Sun's Disc, in the Year 1761: An Account of Mr. Horrox's Observation of the Transit of Venus, in the Year 1639 Aberration of a star, is a small apparent motion, occasioned by a sensible proportion between the velocity of light and that of the earth in its annual orbit. From this cause, every star will, in the course of a year, appear to describe a small ellipsis in the heavens, whose greater axis 40 and its lesser axis, perpendicular to 'the ecliptic, 40 x cos. Of star's lat. (to radius In astronomical calcu lations, where great accuracy is required, and the place of a star concerned, a correction on account of aberration, as well as on other accounts, ought to be applied to the star's place as found in the tables. This correction may readily be found by the following theorems; in which A the star's right ascension, D its declination, and S the Sun's longitude. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

To Which Are Added, a Plain Method of Finding the Distances of All the Planets from the Sun, by the Transit of Venus Over the Sun's Disc, in T

Astronomy Explained Upon Sir Isaac Newton's Principles, and Made Easy to Those Who Have Not Studied Mathematics

And Made Easy to Those who Have Not Studied Mathematics : to which are Added, a Plain Method of Finding the Distances of All the Planets from the Sun, by the Transit of Venus Over the Sun's Disc, in the Year 1761 : an Account of Mr. Horrox's Observation of the Transit of Venus in the Year 1639 : And, of the Distances of All the Planets from the Sun, as Deduced from Observations of the Transit in the Year 1761

Astronomy Explained Upon Sir Isaac Newton's Principles

The British Essayists: Knox's essays

Lectures on Select Subjects in Mechanics, Hydrostatics, Pneumatics, Optics, and Astronomy

The author, a Scottish astronomer named James Ferguson, wrote this guide to astronomy for a general audience according to the scientific principles laid out by Sir Issac Newton. Ferguson's love of the field is apparent from the first sentence of the book, in which he says: "Of all the sciences cultivated by mankind, astronomy is acknowledged to be, and undoubtedly is, the most sublime, the most interesting, and the most useful."

And made easy to those who have not studied mathematics

With the Use of the Globes, the Art of Dialing, and the Calculation of the Mean Times of New and Full Means and Eclipses

Lectures on Select Subjects in Mechanics, Hydrostatics, Hydraulics, Pneumatics, and Optics

Lectures on Select Subjects

Papers Illustrating the History of the Scots Brigade in the Service of the United Netherlands, 1572-1782

Papers Illustrating the History of the Scots Brigade in the Service of the United Netherlands, 1572-1782: The Rotterdam papers, 1709-82. The remembrance: a metrical account of the war in Flanders, 1701-12, by John Scot, soldier

To which are Added, a Plain Method of Finding the Distances of All the Planets from the Sun, by the Transit of Venus Over the Sun's Disc, in the Year 1761. An Account of Mr. Horrox's Observation of the Transit of Venus in the Year 1639: And, of the Distances of All the Planets from the Sun, as Deduced from Observations of the Transit in the Year 1761

Astronomy Explained Upon Sir Isaac Newton's Principles, and Made Easy to Those who Have Not Studied Mathematics

And Made Easy to Those who Have Not Studied Mathematics

Astronomy Explained Upon Isaac Newton's Principles

The description and use of the astronomical rotula. Altered and newly exemplified by L. Evans

The British Essayists: Connoisseur

Excerpt from Lectures on Select Subjects in Mechanics, Hydrostatics, Hydraulics, Pneumatics, and Optics: With Use of the Globes, the Art of Dialing, and the Calculation of the Mean Times of New and Full Moons and Eclipses Tbe immortal Sm isaac newton in. Fﬂed even in bi: early yearn tbat it we bigb time to boui/b vague conjee'l'nne: and lypotbe/e: from natural pbiley'opby, and to bring tbat fiieuce under an entire jitbjet'lion to experiment: and geometry. He fiequentb pulled it the experimental philofophy, jb a: to expre/it jignificantly tbe diference between it and tbe num berlefi/j'ﬂem: which bad arifen merely out of tbc conceit: of inventive brain: tbe one fitb/f/ling no longer than tbe/pint of novelty lglr; tbe otber never fining wbil/l tbe nature of thing: remain uncbanged. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

With Use of the Globes, the Art of Dialing, and the Calculation of the Mean Times of New and Full Moons and Eclipses (Classic Reprint)

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