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A genealogical study of small credit policies in Sri Lanka: development agencies and anthropology of knowledge

Research Project

Project/Area Number 13610358
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Section一般
Research Field 文化人類学(含民族学・民俗学)
Research InstitutionKYOTO UNIVERSITY

Principal Investigator

ADACHI Akira  Kyoto Univ., Grad. School of Asian & African Area Studies, Professor, 大学院・アジア・アフリカ地域研究研究科, 教授 (90212513)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) HANADA Masanori  Kumamoto-Gakuen Univ., Fac. Of Social Welfare, Professor, 社会福祉学部, 教授 (30271456)
Project Period (FY) 2001 – 2002
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2002)
Budget Amount *help
¥3,000,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,000,000)
Fiscal Year 2002: ¥1,600,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,600,000)
Fiscal Year 2001: ¥1,400,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,400,000)
Keywordsjanasaviya program / samurdhi program / knowledge / 小規模金融政策 / スリランカ / 知識の人類学 / ジャナサビヤ / サムルディ / 国際研究者交流
Research Abstract

We aimed to examine the genealogy of micro-credit scheme in Sri Lanka during 1990' s, that is Janasaviya and Smurudhi program. A main question here was why the Grameen Bank model had been selected by most policies in South Asian countries. We attempted to analyze the policy-making process in terms of a particular dynamism of knowledge among development agencies and consultancies in Sri Lanka. It was meant by "a particular dynamism" that knowledge produced by organization tends to converge into a dominant one in a competitive situation or market situation as DiMaggio and Powell (1983) discussed in "The iron cage revisited: Institutional isomorphism and collective rationality in organizational fields".
Although we could not complete our analyses during these two years due to too much data gathered, the following two points are made clear:
1. Through reading conference documents and interview data on Janasaviya and Samurudhi programs, the convergence of micro-credit policy into the Grameen Bank model were found to be due to a mode of bureaucracy in which most bureaucrats and technocrats were keen interested in keeping a safest 'form' of policy-making for themselves without considering the contents and supposed results.
2. Those who were engaged with the policy-making hardly remembered what they discussed with their colleagues on micro-credits. It seems to us that they were concerned with only an empty form of policy as A. Riles (2000) described in The network inside out. This point led us to think about memory of development as discusses in our Report here.
As mentioned already, we will continue our analyses of data gathered in this research and publish another report soon.

Report

(3 results)
  • 2002 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report Summary
  • 2001 Annual Research Report
  • Research Products

    (9 results)

All Other

All Publications (9 results)

  • [Publications] 足立 明: "開発の記憶-序にかえて"民族学研究. 67(4). 1-12 (2003)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2002 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] 足立 明: "開発の人類学-アクター・ネットワークの可能性"社会人類学年報. 27. 1-33 (2001)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2002 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] 花田昌宣: "市場原理・公的扶助・労働規律に基づく福祉指向型開発:スリランカにおけるジャナサヴィヤ・プログラムのケース"社会関係研究. 9(2). 23-41 (2003)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2002 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Adachi, A.: "Memories of development: an introduction"The Japanese journal of ethnology. 68(4). 1-12 (2003)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      2002 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Adachi, A.: "Anthropology of development: an actor-network approach"Annual Review of Social Anthropology. 27. 1-33 (2001)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      2002 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Hanada, Masanori: "Social welfare policies based on market principle, public assistance, work disciplines"The study of social relation. 9(2). 23-42 (2003)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      2002 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] 足立 明: "開発の記憶-序にかえて"民族学研究. 67(4). 1-12 (2003)

    • Related Report
      2002 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 花田昌宣: "市場原理・公的扶助・労働規律に基づく福祉志向型開発:スリランカにおけるジャ ナサヴィヤ・プログラムのケース"社会関係研究. 9(2). 23-41 (2003)

    • Related Report
      2002 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 足立 明: "開発の人類学-アクター・ネットワークの可能性"社会人類学年報. 27. 1-33 (2001)

    • Related Report
      2001 Annual Research Report

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Published: 2001-04-01   Modified: 2016-04-21  

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