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Gender, Power and Knowledge for Development (Hardcover)
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Gender, Power and Knowledge for Development (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Explorations in Development Studies
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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).
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