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Blazing a trail while lazing around: knowledge processes and wood-fuel paradoxes?

01/11/2006

14 pages long

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Using autobiographical experience with reference to wood-fuel research in two locations in West Africa, this article illustrates how knowledge processes influence what can be produced as knowledge; how such knowledge is actually produced; and what is eventually produced as knowledge. However, although it explores the various roles that knowledge plays in the social relations at […]

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African scholars and African Studies

01/11/2006

12 pages long

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This article focuses on the development of African Studies, principally in post-1945 Europe and North America, and its counterpart in post-independence Africa. African Studies enjoys an increasingly close connection with bilateral and multilateral development co-operation, providing research and researchers (along with their own conceptual frameworks and concerns) to assist in defining and providing direction for […]

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Promoting gender equality? Some development-related uses of ICTs by women

01/11/2006

6 pages long

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Promoting gender equality? Some development-related uses of ICTs by women

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Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) have created new economic and social opportunities all over the world. Their use, however, continues to be governed by existing power relations whereby women frequently experience relative disadvantage. Amid this inequality are individuals and organisations that are working to use ICTs to further gender equality. These are the issues addressed […]

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Knowledge and learning in online networks in development: a social-capital perspective

01/11/2006

17 pages long

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The authors examine whether the concept of social capital can facilitate our understanding of online networks in development. Much of the knowledge generation and social learning in development takes place in networks, which increasingly operate online. Although these networks are assumed to be a positive force in development, there are many unknown factors, partly because […]

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Editorial

01/11/2006

3 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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Knowledge, communication, development: a perspective from Latin America

01/11/2006

10 pages long

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Knowledge in development has been perceived as a one-way commodity that developed nations could bring ‘down to’ the level of ‘developing countries’. Sharing knowledge is generally seen as a North-South operation. This vertical approach to knowledge in development echoes the vertical approach to development in general, whereby knowledge is perceived as an ingredient of the […]

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Appreciating the Movement of the Movements

01/11/2006

16 pages long

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This review essay surveys the theoretical insights emerging from within the Global Justice and Solidarity Movement, also known as the Anti-Globalisation Movement, or the Movement of the Movements, and also reviews the literature focused on this phenomenon by those closely involved, as well as other observers. The central concern is to understand the nature and […]

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Which knowledge? Whose reality? An overview of knowledge used in the development sector

01/11/2006

15 pages long

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This article provides an overview of issues relating to the use of knowledge by development organisations. It starts by exploring the various definitions of knowledge that exist in a world of many cultures and intellectual traditions, and the role of language. It considers their relationship with each other and with the many and varied ‘informational […]

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What is Development Studies?

01/11/2006

7 pages long

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This article is concerned with some initial reflections on the distinctive features of Development Studies (DS). The aim is to trigger further debate, rather than attempt ‘closure’. Discussion of the nature of DS is timely because of the expansion of taught courses at various levels during the previous decade; because of sustained critiques of DS […]

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Fair-trade coffee in Nicaragua and Tanzania: a comparison

01/08/2006

11 pages long

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Fair-trade activities in the South have tended to be studied in relation to the internal aims of the fair-trade organisations themselves. This article argues that it is also critical to consider the wider fair-trade ‘arena’ or set of interactions. The authors focus on Tanzania and Nicaragua and study the role of four key actors – […]

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