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These days an increasing number of social anthropologists do not find employment within academia. Rather, many find jobs with commercial organizations or in government, where they run research teams and create policy. These scholars provide a much-needed social dimension to government thinking and practice. Anthropology and Public Service shows how anthropologists can set new agendas, and revise old ones in the public sector. Written for scholars and students of various social sciences, these chapters include discussions of anthropologists' work with the Department for International Development, the Ministry of Defence, the UK Border Agency, and the Cabinet Office, and their contributions to prison governance.
List of contents
Chapter 1. Introduction¿: Anthropology and Public Service
Jeremy MacClancy Chapter 2. On Her Majesty's Service (and Beyond): Anthropology's Contribution to an Unconventional Career
Mils Hills Chapter 3. You Can't Go Home Again: Anthropology Displacement and the Work of Government
Benjamin R. Smith Chapter 4. Anthropology in the Closet: Contributions to Community Development and Local Government in the UK
Robert Gregory Chapter 5. Parading through the Peace Process: Anthropology, Governance and Crisis in Northern Ireland
Dominic Bryan and Neil Jarman Chapter 6. From Participant Observer to Observed Participant: a Prison Governor's Experience
Peter Bennett Chapter 7. Identity and Appropriation in Applied Health Research
Rachael Gooberman-Hill Bibliography
Index
About the author
Jeremy MacClancy is Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Anthropological Centre for Conservation, the Environment, and Development, Oxford Brookes University. His latest books are Ethics in the Field: Contemporary Challenges (with A. Fuentes), and Alternative Countrysides: Anthropological Approaches to Rural West Europe Today.
Summary
This volume shows how anthropologists can set new agendas, and revise old ones in the public sector. Included are discussions of anthropologists' work with the Department for International Development, the Ministry of Defence, the UK Border Agency, and their contributions to prison governance.
