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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Lata NarayanaswamyPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Routledge Weight: 0.476kg ISBN: 9781138315952ISBN 10: 1138315958 Pages: 270 Publication Date: 20 June 2018 Audience: College/higher education , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsIntroduction: problematising knowledge as a driver of development Knowledge for development as an exercise in power The knowledge-brokering business: NGOs and feminisms in development Anatomy of a knowledge broker ‘The language is difficult’: interrogating progressive information-production processes ‘Very clearly there is no strategy’: interrogating progressive information-dissemination practices ‘If you want to start a new project, then you pray that funders are on the same wavelength!’: interrogating Southern-based knowledge intermediaries and systems Conclusion: reflecting on the study: what have we learned?ReviewsA brave intervention in the sadly under-theorized arena of knowledge diffusion in international development! Debunking myths about the 'Southern Women's NGO' as an agent for diffusing (disembedded) information for development, Narayanaswamy underscores how intersectional power shapes the movement and work of knowledge. The book calls for facilitating agency through listening in dialogic context-sensitive conversations. - Richa Nagar, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, USA In this important book, Lata Narayanaswamy offers a hugely impressive analysis of gender, power and knowledge in international development. This exceptionally well written book critically explodes some of the comfortable assumptions made about promoting Southern voices, translating material, working with the `grassroots' and ensuring user-friendly ICT access for facilitating improved development outcomes. - Emma Mawdsley, Reader in Human Geography, University of Cambridge, UK Gender, Power and Knowledge Development is based on the author's doctoral research, shining a critical light both on how the Knowledge for Development (K4D) paradigm set out in the World Bank's 1998 World Development Report defined such knowledge, and on how it has since been enthusiastically promoted in permutations of K4D - such as ICT for Development (ICT4D), Communication for Development (C4D), and Knowledge Management for Development (KMDev). The book's origins ensure that the author's approach is both thoroughly researched and forensic in its detail, and its critical contribution is to disrupt lazy assumptions that technical solutions laced with good intentions will ever bring about the kinds of structural changes required to achieve and sustain gender equality. - Deborah Eade, Freelance writer and editor, France A brave intervention in the sadly under-theorized arena of knowledge diffusion in international development! Debunking myths about the 'Southern Women's NGO' as an agent for diffusing (disembedded) information for development, Narayanaswamy underscores how intersectional power shapes the movement and work of knowledge. The book calls for facilitating agency through listening in dialogic context-sensitive conversations. - Richa Nagar, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, USA In this important book, Lata Narayanaswamy offers a hugely impressive analysis of gender, power and knowledge in international development. This exceptionally well written book critically explodes some of the comfortable assumptions made about promoting Southern voices, translating material, working with the 'grassroots' and ensuring user-friendly ICT access for facilitating improved development outcomes. - Emma Mawdsley, Reader in Human Geography, University of Cambridge, UK Gender, Power and Knowledge Development is based on the author's doctoral research, shining a critical light both on how the Knowledge for Development (K4D) paradigm set out in the World Bank's 1998 World Development Report defined such knowledge, and on how it has since been enthusiastically promoted in permutations of K4D - such as ICT for Development (ICT4D), Communication for Development (C4D), and Knowledge Management for Development (KMDev). The book's origins ensure that the author's approach is both thoroughly researched and forensic in its detail, and its critical contribution is to disrupt lazy assumptions that technical solutions laced with good intentions will ever bring about the kinds of structural changes required to achieve and sustain gender equality. - Deborah Eade, Freelance writer and editor, France A brave intervention in the sadly under-theorized arena of knowledge diffusion in international development! Debunking myths about the 'Southern Women's NGO' as an agent for diffusing (disembedded) information for development, Narayanaswamy underscores how intersectional power shapes the movement and work of knowledge. The book calls for facilitating agency through listening in dialogic context-sensitive conversations. - Richa Nagar, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, USA In this important book, Lata Narayanaswamy offers a hugely impressive analysis of gender, power and knowledge in international development. This exceptionally well written book critically explodes some of the comfortable assumptions made about promoting Southern voices, translating material, working with the 'grassroots' and ensuring user-friendly ICT access for facilitating improved development outcomes. - Emma Mawdsley, Reader in Human Geography, University of Cambridge, UK A brave intervention in the sadly under-theorized arena of knowledge diffusion in international development! Debunking myths about the 'Southern Women's NGO' as an agent for diffusing (disembedded) information for development, Narayanaswamy underscores how intersectional power shapes the movement and work of knowledge. The book calls for facilitating agency through listening in dialogic context-sensitive conversations. - Richa Nagar, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, USA In this important book, Lata Narayanaswamy offers a hugely impressive analysis of gender, power and knowledge in international development. This exceptionally well written book critically explodes some of the comfortable assumptions made about promoting Southern voices, translating material, working with the `grassroots' and ensuring user-friendly ICT access for facilitating improved development outcomes. - Emma Mawdsley, Reader in Human Geography, University of Cambridge, UK Author InformationLata Narayanaswamy is a Lecturer in International Development in the School of Politics and International Studies (POLIS) at the University of Leeds, UK. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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