FESTIVAL ELEPHANTS AND THE MYTH OF GLOBAL POVERTY

Author(s): Glynn Cochrane

Politics

Part of the "Anthropology Works" series, this book offers a critical look at the compelling issue of global aid.

Drawing on his many years as a development anthropologists, Glynn Cochrane shows how the flashy Festival Elephants of development aid are wasting time and money instead of helping to solve poverty. He demolishes The Myth of Global Poverty and one single solution to it.

His work experience in the Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea, Sri Lanka, the Cook Islands, and Tanzania illustrates how poverty is locally experiences and contextually variable. In addition, Cochrane's ten years experience as a Social Advisor to Rio Tinto, one of the world's largest mining companies, demonstrates that fieldwork-based community relations, following a Worker Elephant, or anthropological model, are better to alleviate poverty.

He challenges global aid agencies, civil society organizations, and corporations to retire Festival Elephants and reinvent Worker Elephants. If his plan succeeds, you might someday hear a different story about where all the millions of aid dollars go. They just might go to the poor.


Product Information

General Fields

  • : 9780205577651
  • : Allyn & Bacon, Incorporated
  • : 0.213
  • : February 2008
  • : .5 Inches X 5.5 Inches X 8 Inches
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Glynn Cochrane
  • : Paperback
  • : English
  • : 339.46091724
  • : 192