The World Bank-financed ‘Enhanced HIV and AIDS Control Program’ tried to reorganized HIV/AIDS governance in Pakistan by pushing a neoliberal agenda of marketizing the provision of publicly-funded HIV prevention services. NGOs and the private sector competed for contracts with the government to provide services to the quasi-legal population of sex workers, drug users, transgendered people and homosexuals who were deemed ‘high risk’ groups for HIV. With contractualisation emerged a new bureaucratic field that emphasized ‘flexible organization’ and ‘efficiency’ in getting things done, in place of the traditional bureaucratic proceduralism which has been characteristic of the Pakistani civil service. This new corporate-style bureaucratic culture and the ambiguities of a hastily contracted (and ‘efficiently’ rolled out) Enhanced Program gave occasion to public funds ending up in the pockets of a few powerful actors. Instead of generating more efficiency, the marketisation of services dispossessed the intended beneficiaries of the World Bank loan.
{"title":"The Marketization of HIV/AIDS Governance: Public–Private Partnerships and Bureaucratic Culture in Pakistan","authors":"A. Qureshi","doi":"10.3167/CA.2015.330104","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3167/CA.2015.330104","url":null,"abstract":"The World Bank-financed ‘Enhanced HIV and AIDS Control Program’ tried to reorganized HIV/AIDS governance in Pakistan by pushing a neoliberal agenda of marketizing the provision of publicly-funded HIV prevention services. NGOs and the private sector competed for contracts with the government to provide services to the quasi-legal population of sex workers, drug users, transgendered people and homosexuals who were deemed ‘high risk’ groups for HIV. With contractualisation emerged a new bureaucratic field that emphasized ‘flexible organization’ and ‘efficiency’ in getting things done, in place of the traditional bureaucratic proceduralism which has been characteristic of the Pakistani civil service. This new corporate-style bureaucratic culture and the ambiguities of a hastily contracted (and ‘efficiently’ rolled out) Enhanced Program gave occasion to public funds ending up in the pockets of a few powerful actors. Instead of generating more efficiency, the marketisation of services dispossessed the intended beneficiaries of the World Bank loan.","PeriodicalId":84387,"journal":{"name":"Cambridge anthropology : a journal of the Department of Social Anthropology, Cambridge University","volume":"14 1","pages":"35-48"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87214718","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Papering Over the Gaps: Documents, Infrastructure and Political Experimentation in Highland Peru","authors":"A. Pinker","doi":"10.3167/CA.2015.330108","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3167/CA.2015.330108","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":84387,"journal":{"name":"Cambridge anthropology : a journal of the Department of Social Anthropology, Cambridge University","volume":"36 1","pages":"97-112"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75081271","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Beyond Nature and Culture","authors":"M. Holbraad","doi":"10.3167/CA.2014.320211","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3167/CA.2014.320211","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":84387,"journal":{"name":"Cambridge anthropology : a journal of the Department of Social Anthropology, Cambridge University","volume":"27 1","pages":"128-129"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74339246","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
What does it mean for a new religion to arise or take hold among a group of people? What does it mean for a religious tradition to endure? Th ese are questions that are quite commonly addressed, at least implicitly, in the study of religion. Less frequently asked is the question of what it means for a religious tradition to come to an end. Th is article addresses this question, paying particular attention to the ways people actively dismantle a religious tradition that previously shaped their lives. I also consider what studying the process of religious disappearance can teach us about what it means for a tradition to arise and endure, arguing that a grasp on processes of religious dissolution is necessary for a fully rounded approach to the study of religious change. Th roughout the article, I illustrate my arguments with material from the study of Christianity, Judaism and indigenous religious traditions, particularly from Oceania.
{"title":"How Do Religions End?: Theorizing Religious Traditions from the Point of View of How They Disappear","authors":"J. Robbins","doi":"10.3167/CA.2014.320202","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3167/CA.2014.320202","url":null,"abstract":"What does it mean for a new religion to arise or take hold among a group of people? What does it mean for a religious tradition to endure? Th ese are questions that are quite commonly addressed, at least implicitly, in the study of religion. Less frequently asked is the question of what it means for a religious tradition to come to an end. Th is article addresses this question, paying particular attention to the ways people actively dismantle a religious tradition that previously shaped their lives. I also consider what studying the process of religious disappearance can teach us about what it means for a tradition to arise and endure, arguing that a grasp on processes of religious dissolution is necessary for a fully rounded approach to the study of religious change. Th roughout the article, I illustrate my arguments with material from the study of Christianity, Judaism and indigenous religious traditions, particularly from Oceania.","PeriodicalId":84387,"journal":{"name":"Cambridge anthropology : a journal of the Department of Social Anthropology, Cambridge University","volume":"19 1","pages":"2-15"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79540581","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Based on one year of ethnographic fi eldwork, this article discusses the narratives of perceived discrimination and ethnic hatred of Polish migrants in Belfast. Using narrative theory, it examines the construction of identity of Poles as an unprivileged stratum of the Northern Irish society. Migrants’ stories are followed by analysis of the contradictions and tensions between what they construct as their realities and ‘objective truth’. Subsequently, the article accounts for these tensions by exploring the links between ‘cultural repertoires’ of Polish migrants and the ways in which their narratives are presented.
{"title":"Fictitious Kinship: Intimacy, Relatedness and Boundaries in the Life of Hanoi's Migrant Domestic Workers","authors":"Minh T. N. Nguyen","doi":"10.3167/CA.2014.320208","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3167/CA.2014.320208","url":null,"abstract":"Based on one year of ethnographic fi eldwork, this article discusses the narratives of perceived discrimination and ethnic hatred of Polish migrants in Belfast. Using narrative theory, it examines the construction of identity of Poles as an unprivileged stratum of the Northern Irish society. Migrants’ stories are followed by analysis of the contradictions and tensions between what they construct as their realities and ‘objective truth’. Subsequently, the article accounts for these tensions by exploring the links between ‘cultural repertoires’ of Polish migrants and the ways in which their narratives are presented.","PeriodicalId":84387,"journal":{"name":"Cambridge anthropology : a journal of the Department of Social Anthropology, Cambridge University","volume":"7 1","pages":"81-96"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85597064","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Suspicion and the Economy of Trust among Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon","authors":"Leonardo Schiocchet","doi":"10.3167/ca.2014.320210","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3167/ca.2014.320210","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":84387,"journal":{"name":"Cambridge anthropology : a journal of the Department of Social Anthropology, Cambridge University","volume":"59 1","pages":"112-127"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81664661","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"‘My generation had it all easy’: accounts of anxiety and social order in post-Mao Nanjing","authors":"R. Zavoretti","doi":"10.3167/CA.2014.320206","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3167/CA.2014.320206","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":84387,"journal":{"name":"Cambridge anthropology : a journal of the Department of Social Anthropology, Cambridge University","volume":"21 1","pages":"49-64"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84879420","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Asia’s ongoing economic transformation has created a variety of unexpected ruptures, discontinuities and opportunities in the lives of local citizens across the region. Th e introduction to this special section of the journal frames the contributions that follow with a brief review of current scholarly discussions regarding the interrelated concepts of crisis, risk and uncertainty. It then provides an overview of the articles in this collection and highlights the ways in which they contribute to an understanding of local responses to, and strategies for coping with, risk and uncertainty as multidimensional, interwoven aspects of their daily lives, guided by social, economic and moral considerations.
{"title":"Introduction to 'Risks, Ruptures and Uncertainties: Dealing with Crisis in Asia's Emerging Economies'","authors":"K. Endres, Maria Six-Hohenbalken","doi":"10.3167/CA.2014.320205","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3167/CA.2014.320205","url":null,"abstract":"Asia’s ongoing economic transformation has created a variety of unexpected ruptures, discontinuities and opportunities in the lives of local citizens across the region. Th e introduction to this special section of the journal frames the contributions that follow with a brief review of current scholarly discussions regarding the interrelated concepts of crisis, risk and uncertainty. It then provides an overview of the articles in this collection and highlights the ways in which they contribute to an understanding of local responses to, and strategies for coping with, risk and uncertainty as multidimensional, interwoven aspects of their daily lives, guided by social, economic and moral considerations.","PeriodicalId":84387,"journal":{"name":"Cambridge anthropology : a journal of the Department of Social Anthropology, Cambridge University","volume":"51 1","pages":"42-48"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75566136","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This article examines some of the ruptures and contestations that have emerged in the context of urban restructuring and market redevelopment policies in Hanoi, Vietnam. Public markets have become sites of contestation and struggle over the commoditization and use of public urban space: large plots of state-owned real estate in the inner city are handed over to private investment companies for development, in the process of which small-scale traders are losing their means of economic survival in the marketplace. These forms of accumulation by dispossession likewise reflect processes of social and spatial reconfiguration that exclude the urban poor and other ‘uncivilized’ subjects from public visibility by creating up-scaled spaces of lifestyle and consumption for the newly emerging classes of high-end consumers. Such processes of dispossession are gendered and impact on different kinds of traders in different ways.
{"title":"Downgraded by upgrading: small-scale traders, urban transformation and spatial reconfiguration in post-reform Vietnam","authors":"K. Endres","doi":"10.3167/CA.2014.320209","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3167/CA.2014.320209","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines some of the ruptures and contestations that have emerged in the context of urban restructuring and market redevelopment policies in Hanoi, Vietnam. Public markets have become sites of contestation and struggle over the commoditization and use of public urban space: large plots of state-owned real estate in the inner city are handed over to private investment companies for development, in the process of which small-scale traders are losing their means of economic survival in the marketplace. These forms of accumulation by dispossession likewise reflect processes of social and spatial reconfiguration that exclude the urban poor and other ‘uncivilized’ subjects from public visibility by creating up-scaled spaces of lifestyle and consumption for the newly emerging classes of high-end consumers. Such processes of dispossession are gendered and impact on different kinds of traders in different ways.","PeriodicalId":84387,"journal":{"name":"Cambridge anthropology : a journal of the Department of Social Anthropology, Cambridge University","volume":"49 1","pages":"97-111"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86078951","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Talk and practice: ethics and an individual in contemporary south India.","authors":"S. Venkatesan","doi":"10.3167/CA.2014.320204","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3167/CA.2014.320204","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":84387,"journal":{"name":"Cambridge anthropology : a journal of the Department of Social Anthropology, Cambridge University","volume":"1 1","pages":"26-41"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78181243","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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