Framing African development : challenging concepts / edited by Kjell Havnevik, Terje Oestigaard, Eva Tobisson, Tea Virtanen.

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TextSeries: African-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies (Series)Publisher: Boston : Brill, 2015Description: 1 online resourceContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

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9789004305465
9004305467

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Framing African developmentDDC classification:

338.96 23

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HC800.Z9 E4442 2015eb

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Contents:

Framing African development- challenging concepts / Kjell Havnevik -- Developing the 'other' : perceptions of Africans and change / Terje Oestigaard -- Misconceptions and poor understanding- the debate on poverty / Mats H�arsmar -- Debating empowerment : a case study of knowledge practices in the development assistance committee / Rosalind Eyben -- Beyond livelihoods : occupationality and career formation in African artisanal mining / Deborah Fahy Bryceson -- The concept and paradoxes of displacement / Amanda Harnmar -- Primitive accumulation : concept, similarities and varieties / Rune Skarstein -- From food security to food sovereignty? / Kjell Havnevik.

Summary: This book discusses and challenges concepts that are widely used in research and policy related to development issues in Africa. The main rationale for such an undertaking is that the concepts that are used to understand and define the world in general and Africa in particular are not merely describing social, economic and political processes and events; they are also largely framing these very same processes. Thus, the concepts by which we structure the world will implicitly or explicitly give premises for policies and practices; limiting or favouring certain types of actions and frameworks of interpretation and understanding in various contexts. It is therefore important to challenge commonly held conceptions about framing African development. Contributors include: Deborah Fahy Bryceson, Rosalind Eyben, Amanda Hammar, Kjell Havnevik, Mats Ha��rsmar, Terje Oestigaard and Rune Skarstein.

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"This book is based on contributions t:o a serles of semlnars organized by the Rural and Agrarian research cluster at the Nordic Africa Institute (. NAI), LJppsala, between 2011 and 2013."

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This book discusses and challenges concepts that are widely used in research and policy related to development issues in Africa. The main rationale for such an undertaking is that the concepts that are used to understand and define the world in general and Africa in particular are not merely describing social, economic and political processes and events; they are also largely framing these very same processes. Thus, the concepts by which we structure the world will implicitly or explicitly give premises for policies and practices; limiting or favouring certain types of actions and frameworks of interpretation and understanding in various contexts. It is therefore important to challenge commonly held conceptions about framing African development. Contributors include: Deborah Fahy Bryceson, Rosalind Eyben, Amanda Hammar, Kjell Havnevik, Mats Ha��rsmar, Terje Oestigaard and Rune Skarstein.

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