Elizabeth Olson

TL;DR: This article explored the ways in which discussions of social capital have emerged within the World Bank, and how they interacted both with project practices and with larger debates in the institution, and concluded with a reflection on implications of these debates for future research, policy, and practice.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a framework for studying organizational culture in multi-agency development projects, which draws on selected writings in anthropology and in organizational theory and suggests that these two bodies of literature can be usefully brought together, as well as insights from ongoing fieldwork in Bangladesh, Burkina Faso and Peru.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a challenge to radical geographers and invite a selection of leading geographers to respond, arguing that such a project will be subjective, ethnocentric, essentialist and implicitly authoritarian, and that this is not necessarily at odds with the descriptive and explanatory aims of social science.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyse the short term mission experiences of young UK Christians volunteering in Latin America to explore the relationships between international volunteering, faith and subjectivity, and reveal the contingent and multilayered ways subjectivities evolve and are performed through international volunteering.

TL;DR: The Search for Empowerment as discussed by the authors explores the possibilities of internally generated change within the World Bank and explores the debates within the bank about the efficacy of social capital concepts for the encouragement of more participatory and empowering forms of development.