James Ferguson (anthropologist)
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James Ferguson (Anthropologist)
)James Gordon Ferguson | |
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Ph.D. | |
| Alma mater | University of California, Santa Barbara, Harvard University[1] |
| Thesis | Discourse, knowledge, and structural production in the "development" industry : an anthropological study of a rural development project in Lesotho[2] (1985[2]) |
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| Discipline | Anthropologist |
| Sub-discipline | Development studies |
| Institutions | Stanford University (2003 - ) University of California, Irvine (1986-2003)[1] |
| Main interests | Political economy, Development studies, Migration[1] |
James Ferguson (born June 16, 1959) is an American
Selected publications
- 2015, Give a Man a Fish. Duke University Press
- 2010, The Uses of Neoliberalism. Antipode, volume 41, supplement 1, 2010.
- 2006, Global Shadows: Africa in the Neoliberal World Order, Duke University Press.
- 1999, Expectations of Modernity: Myths and Meanings of Urban Life on the Zambian Copperbelt, University of California Press.
- 1997, Editor, Anthropological Locations: Boundaries and Grounds of a Field Science (with Akhil Gupta), Univ. of California Press.
- 1997, Editor, Culture, Power, Place: Explorations in Critical Anthropology (with Akhil Gupta), Duke University Press.
- 1990, The Anti-Politics Machine: 'Development,' Depoliticization, and Bureaucratic Power in Lesotho, Cambridge University Press. Republished in 1994 by University of Minnesota Press.
References
- ^ a b c d Ferguson, James (May 2015). "Curriculum Vitae - James Ferguson" (PDF). Stanford - Department of Anthropology. Stanford University. Retrieved November 5, 2016.
- ^ OCLC 19506355. Retrieved November 5, 2016.
- ^ "Ferguson, James, 1959-". Library of Congress Name Authority File. Library of Congress. Retrieved November 5, 2016.
- ^ a b "James Ferguson". Stanford - Department of Anthropology. Stanford University. Retrieved November 5, 2016.
External links
- Ferguson's faculty profile at Stanford
- Interview with James Ferguson by 'Theory Talks'
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