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Development cooperation is a knowledge industry
01/12/2008 Development cooperation is a knowledge industry. If I state that or write that down, it always looks if that is something very obvious, something that even the blind can see. Still I arrive from time to time in places where that is severely underestimated, where un-experienced and not-knowledgeable seems to be the internal rule to appoint people at places, more than the opposite. Or places where this statement is acknowledged and subscribed, but where it is assumed that knowledge is automatic...Column by Shobha Raghuram - Valuing Development Knowledges
Knowledges about development present to the publics unique multidimensional theories and narratives about the struggles of people world over to attain social justice, to set right the inequalities, and, resolve the contradictions that beset our lives. These knowledges underscore the inseparability of precepts and practices. Foundational issues are being raised by Paul Hoebink and Alan Fowler about development work, development aid and the politics of being faithful to one’s mission. I continu...Column by Alan Fowler: Aided development is a language industry
Aided development is a language industry. This opening sentence draws on the important messages to be found in Paul Hoebink’s column for the previous Newsletter. It does so from a novel and challenging way of looking at development cooperation which is emerging from the civic driven change (CDC) initiative hosted by the Institute of Social Studies. Read the column here.
Civil society activism in Morocco: ‘much ado about Nothing’
18/11/2009 On the 13th of November, 2009, Knowledge Programme Civil Society in West Asia organised a seminar on the Moroccan civil society for the political scientist and researcher Dr. Francesco Cavatorta. Dr. Cavatorta is attached to School of Law and Government, Dublin State University and Knowledge Programme Civil Society in West Asia. The seminar was attended by participants from Hivos, University of Amsterdam, Press Now and IKV Pax Christi. The presentation and conclusions provided a p...
CALL FOR PROPOSALS: Authoritarianisms, Regime Resilience and State-Society Relations: Comparing Political Change in Syria and Iran
Steven Heydemann (U.S. Institute for Peace and Georgetown University) and Reinoud Leenders (University of Amsterdam) are pleased to invite you to submit a proposal for writing a paper within the framework of a joint research effort on Authoritarianisms, Regime Resilience and State-Society Relations: Comparing Political Change in Syria and Iran. The paper is to be presented in a project workshop and will be considered for publication in an edited volume or a special edition of a major academic...Alternative frameworks for research and teaching
The Centre for the Study of Culture and Society (CSCS) offers a fellowship awarded by SEPHIS to a student from any country in the South to spend one academic year in Bangalore, India, beginning July 2009. The main purpose of the fellowship programme is to help develop alternative frameworks for research and teaching as well as new theoretical paradigms that take into account the specific experiences of non-Western societies. Complete applications must reach CSCS by March 21, 2009After the crisis: the need for a new monetary system
As part of the ongoing discussion on Beyond Economics Development Vol 52 no 3 leading up to the journal launches in New York (29 October 2009) and The Hague (11 December 2009), Assistant Editor Laura Fano interviewed James Robertson, an independent writer and activist on economic alternatives (www.jamesrobertson.com). In 1984 he co-founded the New Economics Foundation (NEF) in London. His latest book is The History of Money: From Its Origins to Our Time.
A way out of the crisis: Radical Ecological Democracy
In the continuing discussions around Beyond Economics Development Vol 52 no 3 Assistant Editor Laura Fano interviewed Ashish Kothari, founding member of the Indian environmental group Kalpavriksh (www.kalpavriksh.org) and former co-chair of the IUCN Strategic Direction on Governance, Equity and Livelihoods in Relation to Protected Areas.
A concise guide to the basics
The world is not working well. For more and more people, life is unfair and insecure. In fact, for years now the global future has looked less rather than more politically certain, financially stable and ecologically viable. CDC introduces novel ideas about citizen efforts that can turn this alarming reality around.
South Africa and the global economic crisis
Assistant Editor Laura Fano interviewed Ebrahim-Khalil Hassen, who could not attend the launch of Development 52.3 ‘Beyond Economics’ in New York, on the effects of the global economic crisis in South Africa. Ebrahim is an independent researcher and a part-time research associate at the Centre for Poverty, Employment and Growth at South Africa’s Human Sciences Research Council.