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Humanicrats’: the social production of compassion, indifference, and hostility in long-term camps

01/02/2011

11 pages long

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Why do front-line workers not always display humanitarian compassion towards people living in camps? In seeking an answer, this article conceptualises the ‘humanicrat’: a front-line worker who is part humanitarian and part bureaucrat, each with typological emotions. Case studies from NGO teams in long-term camps in northern Ugandan illustrate the social production of emotions. The […]

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Publishing for social change

01/02/2011

3 pages long

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Civil society

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This is the text of a talk given at a conference for Publishing for Social Change in Oxford. It explores the effect of literature on political consciousness.

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Why is development work so straight? Heteronormativity in the international development industry

01/02/2011

10 pages long

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Why is development work so straight? Heteronormativity in the international development industry

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International development work has both reinforced and challenged inequalities related to sexuality and gender. The concept of heteronormativity is a promising frame for understanding these dynamics. This article starts with a description of the history of the concept and an exploration of its possible applications. It goes on to consider heteronormativity in development work, in […]

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Why can’t development be managed more like a funeral? Challenging participatory practices

01/02/2011

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The adoption of techniques to elicit community participation in development practice is an important step forward. The question remains whether this is sufficient for development outcomes that accord with the aspirations of ‘participants’. Community perceptions are somewhat different, as our own conclusions demonstrate. We have developed a ‘methodology of inclusiveness’, based on community institutions which […]

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Editorial

01/02/2011

2 pages long

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This article does not have a description. This article is hosted by our co-publisher Taylor & Francis.

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Livelihoods-based impact assessment in the rice-wheat farming system of South Asia

01/11/2010

12 pages long

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This article reports on an ex-ante impact study in the Indo-Gangetic Plains of South Asia. The study, guided by a livelihoods approach, developed a spatial-mapping methodology based on secondary data for 18 variables which served as indicators of the five livelihood classes of assets (natural, physical, financial, social, and human). The overall livelihood-asset index showed […]

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The impact of agricultural research: evidence from West Africa

01/11/2010

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Can agricultural research help to enlist smallholders and their resources for global food security? The Convergence of Sciences (CoS) research programme in Benin and Ghana (2002-2006) tested the impact of technology development, using a pathway for impact which featured ‘technographies’, diagnostic studies, and farmer-experimenter groups to ensure appropriateness. Within the existing small windows of opportunity […]

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Linking evidence with user voice for pro-poor policy: lessons from East Africa

01/11/2010

15 pages long

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Many agricultural research and development projects seek to achieve pro-poor outcomes through policy change. However, policy processes are complex, and a strategic approach to enhancing impact at policy level is often not applied. This article describes two case studies of actual policy change – on dairy marketing in Kenya, and on urban agriculture in Kampala […]

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Rethinking monitoring in a complex messy partnership in Brazil

01/11/2010

17 pages long

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Since 1996, CTA-ZM, a local Brazilian NGO, has been developing better ways to understand its work on pro-poor institutional transformation in Minas Gerais. It operates within a ‘messy partnership’ which includes farmer trade unions, associations, social movements, and academic institutions. The combined challenge of institutional transformation and messy partnerships has made it clear that mainstream […]

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Institutional change: the unanticipated consequences of action

01/11/2010

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This article argues that the managerial approaches to development need to be reconstituted through a more comprehensive understanding of how institutional and behavioural change processes occur. Drawing from a case study in Nepal, and by exploring the largely unintended consequences of project actions, this article argues for viewing change as a complex social phenomenon based […]

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