Hope and Insufficiency

<p> A process through which skills knowledge and resources are expanded capacity building remains a tantalizing and pervasive concept throughout the field of anthropology though it has received little in the way of critical analysis. By exploring the concept's role in a variety of different settings including government lexicons religious organizations environmental campaigns biomedical training and fieldwork from around the globe <em>Hope and Insufficiency</em> seeks to question the histories assumptions intentions and enactments that have led to the ubiquity of capacity building thereby developing a much-needed critical purchase on its persuasive power.</p>