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Development

'Development' is usually a means of trying to suture the complexities and inequalities of the modern world by reducing them—however counter-productive the results—to instrumental and technologically-driven terms. Rethinking the issues using a variety of theoretical and disciplinary approaches exposes the intellectual poverty of much existing work.

General

1993. Introduction: the growth of ignorance? In An anthropological critique of development: the growth of ignorance? ed. M. Hobart, London: Routledge.

Regional

2007. Black umbrellas: labelling and articulating development in the Indonesian mass media. In Labelling people: how and why our categories matter. eds. R. Eyben & J. Moncrieffe, London: Earthscan, 128-42.

2002. Lances greased with pork fat: imagining difference in Bali - with Introduction. In Imagined Differences: hatred and the construction of identity. ed. G. Schlee, Hamburg & London: LIT Verlag, 101-22.

1999. Is development studies really part of media studies? - with Introduction. Deutsche Gesellschaft für Völkerkunde Tagung, Ethnologie und Entwicklungsforschung  Die Ethnologie und ihre Nachbardisziplinen. Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg October 1999. 

1990. Discerning disorder: is it really there? Paper to EIDOS conference on Giving disorder its due: studying social change and development. Amsterdam.

1987. The elixir of mortality. (Unpub. paper to the EIDOS workshop on The economy as a system of meaning, University of Bielefeld.

1986. Metaphors and metaphysics in Balinese development. (Unpub. paper to EIDOS conference on Practice and policy transformation in development, Agricultural University of Wageningen.

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