Framing African development : : challenging concepts / / edited by Kjell Havnevik [and three others].
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 describ...
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| Superior document: | Africa-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies, Volume 16 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill,, 2016. ©2016 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | African-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies (Series) ;
Volume 16. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (213 p.) |
| Notes: | "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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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material / Kjell Havnevik , Terje Oestigaard , Eva Tobisson and Tea Virtanen
- 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 Hårsmar
- 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 Hammar
- Primitive Accumulation: Concept, Similarities and Varieties / Rune Skarstein
- From Food Security to Food Sovereignty? / Kjell Havnevik
- Index / Kjell Havnevik , Terje Oestigaard , Eva Tobisson and Tea Virtanen.