Village Gone ViralAuthor :
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Published : Tuesday 16 February 2021
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In 2001, Ethiopian Television aired a documentary about a small, rural village called Awra Amba, where women ploughed, men worked in the kitchen, and so-called harmful traditional practices did not exist. The documentary radically challenged prevailing images of Ethiopia as a gender-conservative and aid-dependent place, and Awra Amba became a symbol of gender equality and sustainable development in Ethiopia and beyond. Village Gone Viral uses the example of Awra Amba to consider the widespread circulation and use of modeling practices in an increasingly transnational and digital policy world. With a particular focus on traveling modelsâ?"policy models that become "viral" through various vectors, ranging from NGOs and multilateral organizations to the Internetâ?"Marit Tolo A~stebA, critically examines the hidden dimensions of models and model making. While a policy model may be presented as a "best practice," one that can be scaled up and successfully applied to other places, the local impacts of the model paradigm are far more ambivalentâ?"potentially increasing social inequalities, reinforcing social stratification, and concealing injustice. With this book, A~stebA, ultimately calls for a reflexive critical anthropology of the production, circulation, and use of models as instruments for social change.
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