Gender, Power and Knowledge for Development
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-415-73900-9 (ISBN)
Using a qualitative, multi-site ethnographical study of a Northern-based gender information service and its ‘beneficiaries’ in India, the book queries the utility of the knowledge paradigm itself and the underlying assumption that a knowledge deficit exists in the Global South. It questions the value of practices designed to address this presumed deficit that seek to increase information without addressing the specific problems of the knowledge systems being targeted for support. After reviewing the evidence, the book recommends that international organisations, governments and practitioners move away from the belief that information intermediaries can employ progressive correctives to ‘tinker at the edges’ and thus resolve the shortcomings of on-going attempts to use knowledge alone as a driver of development.
Gender, Power and Knowledge for Development will be of great interest to researchers, students in development studies, gender studies, and communication studies as well as INGOs, donor agencies and groups engaged in information for development (i4D), ICT for development (ICT4D), Tech4Dev, knowledge mobilization and knowledge-for-development (K4D).
Lata Narayanaswamy is a Lecturer in International Development in the School of Politics and International Studies (POLIS) at the University of Leeds, UK.
Introduction: problematising knowledge as a driver of development
Knowledge for development as an exercise in power
The knowledge-brokering business: NGOs and feminisms in development
Anatomy of a knowledge broker
‘The language is difficult’: interrogating progressive information-production processes
‘Very clearly there is no strategy’: interrogating progressive information-dissemination practices
‘If you want to start a new project, then you pray that funders are on the same wavelength!’: interrogating Southern-based knowledge intermediaries and systems
Conclusion: reflecting on the study: what have we learned?
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 2.12.2016 |
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Reihe/Serie | Routledge Explorations in Development Studies |
Zusatzinfo | 7 Tables, black and white; 5 Line drawings, black and white; 1 Halftones, black and white; 13 Illustrations, black and white |
Verlagsort | London |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
Gewicht | 550 g |
Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien | |
ISBN-10 | 0-415-73900-4 / 0415739004 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-415-73900-9 / 9780415739009 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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