Greasy Anthropology: Anthropologists, Indigenous Peoples, and the State

2011 ◽  
Vol 33 (4) ◽  
pp. 4-12
Author(s):  
Salomón Sitton ◽  
Martha Rees
Keyword(s):  
Oral History ◽  
World Bank ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Applied Anthropology ◽  
The State ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
The World Bank ◽  
Senior Researcher ◽  
Oral History Interview ◽  
Source Materials

This essay is a collaboration between Martha Rees and Salomón Nahmad Sitton. It covers some of the high (and low) points of Nahmad's career as an applied anthropologist in Mexico, from his early studies in social work to his work for the Secretaría de Educación Publica and the Instituto Nacional Indigenista. Nahmad's career as a senior researcher in CIESAS is recorded in his web site (http://[email protected]) and doesn't touch as much on the issues of applied anthropology. In this article, we focus less on his later career with the World Bank and at CIESAS. This manuscript is based on an oral history interview Rees initially conducted with Nahmad for the Society for Applied Anthropology's Oral History project (see a shorter version at http://sfaanews.sfaa.net/category/sfaa-committees/oral-history-project/). We supplement it with conversations, interviews, and source materials. We also include our observations about indigenismo and applied anthropology in Mexico.1 Ultimately this is a story of opposition within the framework of the state, lessons learned, and prices paid. It is the story of an indefatigable rebel and troublemaker. It is about what it means to get your hands dirty in the struggle to support the demands of indigenous pueblos to live the life they want within the confines of the nation state.

Structural Adjustment, Human Needs, and the World Bank Agenda

1991 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 173-189 ◽  
Author(s):  
Howard Stein ◽  
E. Wayne Nafziger
Keyword(s):  
Development Strategy ◽  
World Bank ◽  
Structural Adjustment ◽  
Critical Evaluation ◽  
The State ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Role Of Government ◽  
International Agencies ◽  
The World Bank ◽  
The World

The economic crisis of the 1970s in sub-Saharan Africa led to a critical evaluation of the rôle of government policies by international agencies, including two contrasting views of the problem by the Economic Commission for Africa/Organisation of African Unity and the World Bank. The E.C.A./O.A.U. largely placed the blame on the deteriorating external environment, emphasising the reduction of income inequality, poverty, and unemployment through a continuation of the state-led introverted development strategy of the previous decade. The World Bank responded in the opposite direction, mainly blaming the inappropriate state policies of the post-independence period, while encouraging a re-focus on economic growth through a structural reversal of the state-imposed impediments to the efficient operations of markets.

scholarly journals Measuring Literacy Gap in the World for Economic and Social Development: Evidence from Selected Countries and the Lessons Learned

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (6A) ◽  
pp. 123-130
Author(s):  
Gbolahan S. Osho ◽  
Arinola C. Ebalunode
Keyword(s):  
Social Development ◽  
World Bank ◽  
International Organizations ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Literacy Rate ◽  
Literacy Gap ◽  
The World Bank ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
The World ◽  
Female Literacy

Literacy rate is a major indicator of economic and social development, the campaign for growth and improvement in this area by several international organizations have caused significant growth in all major regions of the world. The persistent theme to these various programs is that illiteracy is nonetheless prevalent in the world and more study needed to eradicate it, thus generates a significant interest in this issue. Therefore, the primary goal of this current study is to compare five major regions in the world as classified by the World Bank in regards to the differences which exist in literacy. The study concludes that literacy rates of male and female across the regions are different for Youth literacy between the age of 15 and 24. The vast conclusion is that that there is a no significant difference in male literacy among the regions in the world except for Africa. While no significant difference in female literacy among the regions in the world.

scholarly journals Knowledge Economy Model for the State of Hidalgo

2022 ◽  
Vol 3 (6) ◽  
pp. 8-18
Author(s):  
Juan Manuel Lira Aguilar ◽  
Sergio Ramses Pons Cabrera ◽  
Elías Gaona Rivera
Keyword(s):  
World Bank ◽  
State Government ◽  
Knowledge Economy ◽  
The State ◽  
Knowledge Assessment ◽  
Assessment Methodology ◽  
Economy Model ◽  
The World Bank ◽  
Upper Secondary ◽  
Utility Models

This article aims to create a knowledge economy model to be applied in the state of Hidalgo, conducting an exhaustive investigation on the formation of a knowledge economy, as well as a comparative analysis between the state of Hidalgo and nine states more than the Mexican Republic with a certain criterion, in relation to the factors that delimit said economy. These factors are a series of variables taken from 2015: literacy, upper secondary and higher education, researchers, Innovation Stimuli Program (PEI), Mixed Fund associated with the state government (FOMIX), telephony, internet, computers, television, patents, industrial designs and utility models. To later use a method created by the World Bank, which is called Knowledge Assessment Methodology (KAM).  

Indigenous Peoples’ Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC) and the World Bank Safeguards: Between Norm Emergence and Concept Appropriation

2020 ◽  
Vol 53 (3) ◽  
pp. 223-244
Author(s):  
Stéphanie de Moerloose
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Informed Consent ◽  
World Bank ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
International Human Rights Law ◽  
Law And Development ◽  
The World Bank ◽  
The World ◽  
Development Literature ◽  
Norm Emergence

The question of the consent of indigenous peoples is at least as old as colonization. Indeed, the consent of indigenous peoples was already an issue at the heart of treaty-making between colonial settlers and indigenous peoples. The issue of indigenous peoples’ consent, understood as their Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC), has been re-emerging and gaining acceptance internationally in international Human Rights law over the last 30 years. When the new World Bank safeguards were adopted in 2016, one of the most discussed topics during the consultation rounds had been the integration in the safeguards of the concept of the FPIC of indigenous peoples, as it had been notoriously absent from the previous safeguards. Finally, FPIC was made part of the new safeguards. This paper first maps the concept of FPIC under international law from a postcolonial perspective. Then, it attempts to analyze the processes of operationalization of the concept by the World Bank in the new safeguards, drawing on Human Rights and on law and development literature. The paper argues that there is a tension between the re-emergence of FPIC as a customary norm and the fragmentation of the interpretations of the concept of consent by different actors. The operationalization of the concept of FPIC, understood as a negotiated process rather than a process of self-determination, may in fact limit its remedial objective and diminish its quality as a resistance tool.

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