Store besparelser
Hurtig levering
Fri fragt over 499,-
Gemte
Log ind
0
Kurv
Kurv
Gender, Power and Knowledge for Development
Engelsk
Bogcover for Gender, Power and Knowledge for Development af Lata Narayanaswamy, 9781138315952
Specifikationer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
270
ISBN-13:
9781138315952
Indbinding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
1138315958
Udg. Dato:
20 jun 2018
Størrelse i cm:
15,7 x 23,3 x 2,2
Oplagsdato:
20 jun 2018
Forfatter(e):

Gender, Power and Knowledge for Development

Engelsk
Paperback 2018
Format:

Bog beskrivelse

Knowledge-for-development is under-theorised and under-researched within development studies, but as a set of policy objectives it is thriving within development practice. Donors and other agencies are striving to improve the flow of information within and between decision-makers and so-called ‘poor and marginalized groups’ in order to promote economic and social development, including the empowerment of women. Gender, Power and Knowledge for Development questions the assumptions and practice of the knowledge-for-development industry.

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).

... Vis mere

Forlags Vejl. pris
535,89 kr
Hos Booktok
471 kr
spar 12%
Læg i kurv nu
Sikker betaling
23 - 25 hverdage

Specifikationer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
270
ISBN-13:
9781138315952
Indbinding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
1138315958
Udg. Dato:
20 jun 2018
Størrelse i cm:
15,7 x 23,3 x 2,2
Oplagsdato:
20 jun 2018
Forfatter(e):
Finder produkter...
Kategori sammenhænge