Negotiating Local Knowledge
Author: Alan Bicker
Publisher: Pluto Press (UK)
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA timely and up-to-date volume that presents a genuine contribution to the debates over indigenous knowledge.
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Development and Local Knowledge
Author: Alan Bicker
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 233
ISBN-13: 0415318262
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThere is a revolution happening in the practice of anthropology. A new field of 'indigenous knowledge' is emerging, which aims to make local voices hear and ensure that development initiatives meet the needs of indigenous people. Development and Local Knowledge focuses on two major challenges that arise in the discussion of indigenous knowledge - its proper definition and the methodologies appropriate to the exploitation of local knowledge. These concerns are addressed in a range of ethnographic contexts.
Negotiating Local Governance
Author: Irit Eguavoen
Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 243
ISBN-13: 3643106734
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Center for Development Research (ZEF) is an international and interdisciplinary research institute of the University of Bonn, Germany. Local governance of natural resources implies the transfer of administrative duties from the national to the regional level, as well as the day-to-day management by local users. The case studies range from forests in Vietnam and Africa, African wetlands, to water in Afghanistan and land in Malaysia. The book illustrates the dynamics in the local arena under consideration of national administrative and legal re-organization and analyses the dynamics of this conflict-prone interface.
Entangled Territorialities
Author: Françoise Dussart
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2017-01-01
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13: 1487521596
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEntangled Territorialities offers vivid ethnographic examples of how Indigenous lands in Australia and Canada are tangled with governments, industries, and mainstream society. Most of the entangled lands to which Indigenous peoples are connected have been physically transformed and their ecological balance destroyed. Each chapter in this volume refers to specific circumstances in which Indigenous peoples have become intertwined with non-Aboriginal institutions and projects including the construction of hydroelectric dams and open mining pits. Long after the agents of resource extraction have abandoned these lands to their fate, Indigenous peoples will continue to claim ancestral ties and responsibilities that cannot be understood by agents of capitalism. The editors and contributors to this volume develop an anthropology of entanglement to further examine the larger debates about the vexed relationships between settlers and indigenous peoples over the meaning, knowledge, and management of traditionally-owned lands.
Negotiating Digital Citizenship
Author: Anthony McCosker
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2016-10-12
Total Pages: 293
ISBN-13: 1783488905
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWith pervasive use of mobile devices and social media, there is a constant tension between the promise of new forms of social engagement and the threat of misuse and misappropriation, or the risk of harm and harassment. Negotiating Digital Citizenship explores the diversity of experiences that define digital citizenship. These range from democratic movements that advocate social change via social media platforms to the realities of online abuse, racial or sexual intolerance, harassment and stalking. Young people, educators, social service providers and government authorities have become increasingly enlisted in a new push to define and perform ‘good’ digital citizenship, yet there is little consensus on what this term really means and sparse analysis of the vested interests that drive its definition. The chapters probe the idea of digital citizenship, map its use among policy makers, educators, and activists, and identify avenues for putting the concept to use in improving the digital environments and digitally enabled tenets of contemporary social life. The components of digital citizenship are dissected through questions of control over our online environments, the varieties of contest and activism and possibilities of digital culture and creativity.
Seven Secrets for Negotiating with Government
Author: Jeswald Salacuse
Publisher: AMACOM
Published: 2008-01-09
Total Pages: 225
ISBN-13: 0814409725
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAlmost everyone has faced the frustrating task of negotiating with government-local, state, national, or foreign-at some point in their lives. Whether they are applying for a building permit from their local zoning board, trying to sell software to the U.S. Defense Department, looking for approval for a merger, or planning to set up a business in Limerick or Bangalore, businesspeople confront a unique set of challenges when dealing with any form of government. Distinguished author, professor and negotiation expert Jeswald W. Salacuse explains the ways in which negotiating with government is very different from private negotiation. In Seven Secrets for Negotiating with Government, he addresses the key variables involved-from the influence of bureaucracy to the perception of power on the government side of the negotiating table. The only book of its kind, this invaluable guide offers succinct, realistic, and accessible advice to help readers recognize the often-hidden interests driving government negotiators and how to use that knowledge to their advantage. Filled with real-life examples, this book will show businesspeople everywhere how to navigate this complex world and win.
Reclaiming the Local in Language Policy and Practice
Author: A. Suresh Canagarajah
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2005-01-15
Total Pages: 328
ISBN-13: 1135623511
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume inserts the place of the local in theorizing about language policies and practices in applied linguistics. It is unique in focusing specifically on the outcomes of globalization in and among the communities affected by these changes.
Water for a Changing World - Developing Local Knowledge and Capacity
Author: Guy Alaerts
Publisher: CRC Press
Published: 2008-12-10
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 0203878051
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection of papers represents the outcomes of the International Symposiumheld in Delft, The Netherlands, on June 13-15, 2007, at the occasion of the 50thanniversary of the UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education. The papers discusshow to contribute to the sustainability of effective international development andwater management with a diges
Environmental Uncertainty and Local Knowledge
Author: Anna-Katharina Hornidge
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Published: 2014-03-31
Total Pages: 285
ISBN-13: 383941959X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSoutheast Asia is a laboratory showing current worldwide ecological issues. Environmental change, natural resource exploitation as well as global climate change increasingly threaten people's livelihoods. Environmentally-based uncertainties foster a high level of knowledge uncertainty. This poses a constantly growing threat to agricultural production. Vulnerable communities with a low degree of resilience are most severely affected. But local communities have abilities to innovate and develop locally embedded coping strategies. The contributors of this volume are most interested in environmental change that fosters knowledge uncertainties. Regions discussed include the Mekong Delta in Vietnam, Moluccas, Central Kalimantan, West Sumatra and South Sulawesi in Indonesia and Tangail Region in Bangladesh.
Negotiating Rites
Author: Ute Husken
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 310
ISBN-13: 0199812292
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRitual has been long viewed as an undisputed and indisputable part of (especially religious) tradition, performed over and over in the same ways: stable in form, meaningless, preconcieved, and with the aim of creating harmony and enabling a tradition's survival. The authors represented in this collection argue, however, that this view can be seriously challenged and that ritual's embeddedness in negotiation processes is one of its central features.
