Action as Method: Ethnographic approaches for impact

Eyre, Ben ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1944-4838 (2022) Action as Method: Ethnographic approaches for impact. Anthropology Today, 38 (3). pp. 27-28. ISSN 0268-540X

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Abstract

Anthropologists have persuasively made a case for critical ethnographic engagement with elites in recent years. The most significant risk of such an approach is that it may appear meaningless to powerful actors who claim they want to ‘do good’, such as impact investors and philanthropists. This article suggests that producing intermediary outputs targeted at these powerful actors first would generate the potential for solving contemporary problems, which, in turn, would help develop theory.

Item Type: Article
Additional Information: Acknowledgements: Open Access Funding provided by Universita degli Studi di Bologna within the CRUI-CARE Agreement.
Uncontrolled Keywords: anthropology ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/3300/3314
Faculty \ School: Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Global Development (formerly School of International Development)
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Depositing User: LivePure Connector
Date Deposited: 22 Jun 2023 08:31
Last Modified: 28 Jun 2023 08:07
URI: https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/92463
DOI: 10.1111/1467-8322.12733

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