Professional Identities

Shirley Ardener, a well-published social anthropologist, is a Senior Associate of Queen Elizabeth House, Oxford University. She was the founding director of the Centre for Cross-Cultural Research on Women, now the International Gender Studies Centre, of which she remains an active honorary member.

• List of FiguresPrefaceShirley ArdenerIntroduction: Bridging Businesses and BureaucraciesFiona MooreChapter 1. Matters of the Heart: The Business of English Rugby LeagueMargaret GroeneveldChapter 2. When Worlds Collide: British Bureaucracy Meets German Bureaucracy in the Global Finance-scapeFiona MooreChapter 3. Image and Reality in an Israeli ‘Absorption Centre’ for Ethiopian ImmigrantsEsther HerzogChapter 4. Loyalty and Politics: The Discourses of LiberalisationSimone AbramChapter 5. Identities under Construction: The Case of International EducationHilary CallanChapter 6. Portrait of an Aid Donor: A Profile of DFIDAnne ColesChapter 7. Identity Construction in Development Practices: The Government of Ghana, Civil Society, Private Sector and Development PartnersLindsay Whitfield

“…the case studies…do, together, speak to methodological issues that are about more than the enrichment of a sub-field…[The volume’s] publication is well timed to pause a pause for thinking about what, analytically, anthropology has to offer amidst the crisis of corporatist failure.”  ·  JRAI