Doing Development in West Africa (eBook, PDF)

A Reader by and for Undergraduates
Redaktion: Charles Piot, Piot

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

In recent years the popularity of service learning and study abroad programs that bring students to the global South has soared, thanks to this generation of college students' desire to make a positive difference in the world. This collection contains essays by undergraduates who recount their experiences in Togo working on projects that established health insurance at a local clinic, built a cyber cafe, created a microlending program for teens, and started a local writers' group. The essays show students putting their optimism to work while learning that paying attention to local knowledge can make all the difference in a project's success. Students also conducted research on global health topics by examining the complex relationships between traditional healing practices and biomedicine. Charles Piot's introduction contextualizes student-initiated development within the history of development work in West Africa since 1960, while his epilogue provides an update on the projects, compiles an inventory of best practices, and describes the type of projects that are likely to succeed. Doing Development in West Africa provides a relatable and intimate look into the range of challenges, successes, and failures that come with studying abroad in the global South.Contributors. Cheyenne Allenby, Kelly Andrejko, Connor Cotton, Allie Middleton, Caitlin Moyles, Charles Piot, Benjamin Ramsey, Maria Cecilia Romano, Stephanie Rotolo, Emma Smith, Sarah Zimmerman

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. August 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822374039
• Artikelnr.: 54672085

Autorenporträt

Charles Piot is Professor of Cultural Anthropology and African and African American Studies at Duke University, and the author of Nostalgia for the Future: West Africa after the Cold War.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  vii
Introduction / Charles Piot  1
Part I. Personal Reflections
1. Students Reflect / Stephanie Rotolo, Allie Middleton, Kelly Andrejko,
Benjamin Ramsey, Maria Cecilia Romano  19
Part II. Research Articles
2. The Social Life of Medicine / Allie Middleton  43
3. Biomedicine and Traditional Healing / Stephanie Rotolo  67
4. Rural Medicines in an Urban Setting / Kelly Andrejko  83
5. Village Health Insurance / Cheyenne Allenby  99
6. Youth Migration / Maria Cecilia Romano  113
7. Cyber Village / Connor Cotton  137
8. Computer Classes / Sarah Zimmerman  153
9. Microfinancing Teens / Emma Smith  165
10. The Farendé Writers' Society / Caitlin Moyles  187
Epilogue / Charles Piot  205
Index  213