The School of Oriental and African Studies - University of London

Authored Books

Mosse, David (2005) Cultivating Development: An Ethnography of Aid Policy and Practice. London; Ann Arbor, MI.: Pluto Press.

Mosse, David (2003) The Rule of Water. Statecraft, Ecology and Collective Action in South India. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Mosse, David The saint in the banyan tree: popular Christianity and caste society in south India. University of California Press. (Forthcoming)

Edited Books

Mosse, David and Lewis , David, eds. (2006) Development Brokers and Translators. The Ethnography of Aid and Agencies. Bloomfield, CT: Kumarian Press.

Mosse, David and Lewis, David, eds. (2005) The Aid Effect: Giving and Governing in International Development. London: Pluto Press.

Mosse, David and Farrington, John and Rew, Alan, eds. (1998) Development as Process: Concepts and Methods for Working With Complexity. Routledge (London).

Chapters in Books

Mosse, David (2009) 'Christian Dalit activism in contemporary Tamil Nadu.' In: Gellner, David N., (ed.), Ethnic Activism and Civil Society in South Asia. Governance, Conflict and Civic Action. New Delhi: Sage. (In Press)

Mosse, David (2009) 'Introduction: The Anthropology of Expertise and Professionals in International Development.' In: Mosse, David, (ed.), Travelling rationalities: The anthropology of expert knowledge and professionals in international development. Oxford: Berghahn. (In Press)

Mosse, David (2009) 'Social analysis as corporate product: Non-Economists/anthropologists at work in the World Bank in Washington DC.' In: Mosse, David, (ed.), Travelling rationalities: The anthropology of expert knowledge and professionals in international development. Oxford: Berghahn. (In Press)

Mosse, David (2009) 'The Catholic Church and Dalit Christian activism in contemporary Tamil Nadu.' In: Robinson, Rowena, (ed.), Margins of Faith. New Delhi: Sage. (In Press)

Mosse, David (2009) 'Politics and ethics: ethnographies of expert knowledge and professional identities.' In: Wright, Susan and Shore, Cris, (eds.), Policy Worlds. Oxford: Berghahn. (In Press)

Mosse, David (2008) 'Collective action, common property and social capital in south India: an anthropological commentary.' In: Ray, Isha and Bardhan, Pranab, (eds.), The contested commons: conversations between economists and anthropologists. Oxford: Blackwell, pp. 83-106.

Mosse, David (2006) 'Possession and Confession. Affliction and Sacred Power in Colonial and Contemporary Catholic South India.' In: Cannell, F., (ed.), The Anthropology of Christianity. Duke University Press, pp. 99-133.

Mosse, David (2005) 'Global Governance and the Ethnography of International Aid.' In: Mosse, D. and Lewis, D., (eds.), The Aid Effect. Giving and Governing in International Development. Pluto Press, pp. 1-36.

Mosse, David (2004) 'Social analysis as product development: anthropologists at work in the World Bank.' In: Giri, A. and Harskamp, Avan and Salemink, O., (eds.), The development of religion / the religion of development. Amsterdam: Eburon B V, pp. 77-87.

Mosse, David (2004) 'Power relations and poverty reduction.' In: Alsop, Ruth, (ed.), Power, rights and poverty: concepts and connections. Washington DC: The World Bank, pp. 51-67.

Quarles van Ufford, P. and Giri, Ananta and Mosse, David (2003) 'Interventions in development: towards a new moral understanding of our experiences and an agenda for the future.' In: Quarles van Ufford, P. and Giri, A., (eds.), A Moral Critique of Development: In Search of Global Responsibilities. London: Routledge, pp. 3-43.

Mosse, David (2003) 'The making and marketing of particpatory development.' In: Quarles van Uffard, P. and Giri, A., (eds.), A Moral Critique of Development: In Search of Global Responsibilities. London & New York: Routledge, pp. 43-75.

Mosse, David (2001) 'Irrigation and statecraft in Zamindari south India.' In: Fuller, C. and Benei, V., (eds.), The everyday state and society in modern India. Hurst (London), Social Science Press (New Delhi), pp. 163-193.

Mosse, David (2001) 'Social Research in rural development projects.' In: Gellner, D. and Hirsch, E., (eds.), Inside organizations: anthropologists at work. Oxford: Berg Publications, pp. 1577-182.

Mosse, David (2001) ''People's knowledge', participation and patronage: operations and representations in rural development.' In: Cook, B and Kothari, U, (eds.), Participation - the new tyranny? London: Zed Press, pp. 16-35.

Mosse, David (1999) 'Responding to subordination: identity and change among south Indian Untouchable castes.' In: Campbell, J and Rew, A, (eds.), Cultural identity and affect. London: Pluto Press.

Mosse, David (1998) 'Process-oriented approaches to development practice and social research: an introduction.' In: Mosse, D. and Farrington, J. and Rew, A., (eds.), Development as Process: Concepts and Methods for Working with Complexity. London: Routledge, pp. 1-30.

Mosse, David (1998) 'Process documentation and process monitoring: cases and issues.' In: Mosse, D. and Farrington, J. and Rew, A., (eds.), Development as Process: Concepts and Methods for Working with Complexity. London: Routledge, pp. 31-53.

Mosse, David (1997) 'Honour, Caste and Conflict: The Ethnohistory of a Catholic Festival in Rural Tamil Nadu (1730-1990).' In: Assayag, Jackie and Tarabout, Gilles, (eds.), Altérité et identité. Islam et christianisme en Inde. Editions de l'Ecole de Hautes Etudes en Science, pp. 71-120.

Mosse, David (1996) 'The Ideology and Politics of community participation tank-irrigation development in colonial and contemporary Tamil Nadu.' In: Grillo , R. D. and Stirrat , R. L., (eds.), Discourse of Development: anthropological perspectives. Berg, pp. 255-291.

Mosse, David 'The rule of water: uncertainty and the cultural ecology of water in south India.' In: The Ideas of Water. London: I.B. Tauris. (Forthcoming)

Mosse, David 'Aid, adivasis and aspirations for development in western India.' In: Rycroft, Daniel and Das Gupta, Sangeeta, (eds.), Becoming Adivasi: Indigenous Pasts and the Politics of Belonging. Delhi: OUP. (Forthcoming)

Articles

Mosse, David (2008) 'Epilogue: The cultural politics of water – a comparative perspective.' Journal of Southern African Studies, 34 (4). pp. 937-946.

Mosse, David (2008) 'International policy, development expertise, and anthropology.' Focaal, 52 . pp. 119-126.

Mosse, David (2008) 'The anthropology of international institutions (Conference Report).' Anthropology Today, 24 (5). p. 24.

Mosse, David (2006) 'Anti-social anthropology? Objectivity, objection, and the ethnography of public policy and professional communities.' Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 12 (4). pp. 935-956.

Mosse, David (2006) 'Rule and representation: transformations in the governance of the water commons in British south India.' The Journal of Asian Studies, 65 (1). pp. 61-90.

Mosse, David and Lewis, David (2006) 'Encountering Order and Disjuncture: Contemporary Anthropological Perspectives on the Organisation of Development.' Oxford Development Studies, 34 (1).

Mosse, David (2006) 'Collective Action, Common Property, and Social Capital in South India: An Anthropological Commentary.' Economic Development and Cultural Change, 54 (3). pp. 695-724.

Mosse, David (2005) 'On the margins in the city: adivasi seasonal labour migrants in western India.' Economic and Political Weekly, 40 (28). pp. 3025-3038.

Mosse, David (2004) 'Is good policy unimplementable? Reflections on the ethnography of aid policy and practice.' Development and Change, 35(4) . pp. 639-671.

Mosse, David and Gupta, S and Mehta, M and Shah, V and Rees, J (2002) 'Brokered livelihoods: debt, labour migration and development in tribal western India.' Journal of Development Studies, 38 (5). pp. 59-88.

Mosse, David (1999) 'Colonial and contemporary ideologies of community management: the case of tank irrigation development in South India.' Modern Asian Studies, 33 (2). pp. 303-338.

Mosse, David (1997) 'The symbolic making of a common property resource: history, ecology and locality in a tank irrigated landscape in South India.' Development and Change, 28 (3). pp. 467-504.

Mosse, David (1996) 'South Indian Christians, purity/impurity and the caste system: death ritual in a Tamil Roman Catholic community.' Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 2 (3). pp. 461-483.

Monographs

Mosse, David (2007) Power and the durability of poverty: a critical exploration of the links between culture, marginality and chronic poverty. Working Paper. CPRC Working Paper 107, pp1-57. ISBN: 9781906433062.