Myth of Community

Guijt, Irene; Shah, Meera Kaul

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“…Questions and the focus of all interviews and workshops varied according to the situation and participants (see Appendices 2 and 3 for more details). As noted by many scholars, complex power relations are embedded in participatory research processes (Cooke and Kothari 2001, Mohan 2001, Fairhead and Leach 2003, Pain 2004, Blaser 2009); in the research described, here I struggled with various issues, especially in the indigenous communities, including gender imbalances (Guijt and Shah 1998), workshop fatigue (Mistry et al 2009), and the pace and control of the research process being mainly in my hands as the foreign researcher (Pain and Francis 2003). Prior informed consent was obtained for methods, and in some cases, the interviewee requested his or her name to be specified.…”

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What happens at the gap between knowledge and practice? Spaces of encounter and misencounter between environmental scientists and local people

Toomey¹

2016

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ABSTRACT. Researchers studying processes of global environmental change are increasingly interested in their work having impacts that go beyond academia to influence policy and management. Recent scholarship in the conservation sciences has pointed to the existence of a research-action gap and has proposed various solutions for overcoming it. However, most of these studies have been limited to the spaces of dissemination, where the science has already been done and is then to be passed over to users of the information. Much less attention has been paid to encounters that occur between scientists and nonscientists during the practice of doing scientific research, especially in situations that include everyday roles of labor and styles of communication (i.e., fieldwork). This paper builds on theories of contact that have examined encounters and relations between different groups and cultures in diverse settings. I use quantitative and qualitative evidence from Madidi National Park, Bolivia, including an analysis of past research in the protected area, as well as interviews (N = 137) and workshops and focus groups (N = 12) with local inhabitants, scientists, and park guards. The study demonstrates the significance of currently unacknowledged or undervalued components of the research-action gap, such as power, respect, and recognition, to develop a relational and reciprocal notion of impact. I explain why, within such spaces of encounter or misencounter between scientists and local people, knowledge can be exchanged or hidden away, worldviews can be expanded or further entrenched, and scientific research can be welcomed or rejected.

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What happens at the gap between knowledge and practice? Spaces of encounter and misencounter between environmental scientists and local people

Toomey¹

2016

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“…The elite capture critique rose to prominence in development studies as a response to the decentralisation debate and bottom-up development approaches; see Figures 5.1 and 5.2. Argawal (2001), Guijt and Shah (1998), and Kothari (2001) laid the groundwork by criticising proponents of community empowerment for their tendency to uncritically celebrate the 'local community' without considering entrenched local power relations. Platteau 'set the tone' of the elite capture critique (Kusumawati & Visser, 2016, p. 304) when he argued that 'personalised relationships in tribal societies' lead to community imperfections, inequality, and elite capture ( Jean-Philippe Platteau, 2004; J-P. Platteau & Abraham, 2002, p. 111).…”

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The Politics of Knowledge in Inclusive Development and Innovation

Ludwig¹,

Boogaard²,

Macnaghten³

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This book develops an integrated perspective on the practices and politics of making knowledge work in inclusive development and innovation.While debates about development and innovation commonly appeal to the authority of academic researchers, many current approaches emphasise the plurality of actors with relevant expertise for addressing livelihood challenges. Adopting an action-oriented and ref lexive approach, this volume explores the variety of ways in which knowledge works, paying particular attention to dilemmas and controversies. The six parts of the book address the complex interplay of knowledge and politics, starting with the need for knowledge integration in the first part and decolonial perspectives on the politics of knowledge integration in the second part. The following three parts focus on the practices of inclusive development and innovation through three major themes of learning for transformative change, evidence, and digitisation. The final part of the book addresses the governance of knowledge and innovation in the light of political struggles about inclusivity.Exploring conceptual and practical themes through case studies from the Global North and South, this book will be of great interest to students, scholars, and practitioners researching and working in development studies, epistemology, innovation studies, science and technology studies, and sustainability studies more broadly.

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“…According to Guijt and Shah (1998) and Katz et al (2004), development challenges in developing countries are associated with collective action problems. According to Meinzen-Dick et al (2004), the collective action should be voluntarily undertaken the members of the community themselves to achieve their common interest.…”

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“…The theory of collective action recognises the problems of collective action that arise from people"s interest in terms of class, gender, income, wealth and other many elements of identity and social stratification. Guijt and Shah (1998) and Katz et al (2004) asserted that development challenges in developing countries are associated with the problems of collective action. According to Ostrom (1996), collective action refers to personal beliefs and feelings that individuals have about their involvement in issues of public concern and the perceived ability to make a difference in that service delivery.…”

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The Moderating Effect of Collective Action in the Relationship between Civic Engagement and Water Service Delivery in Kondoa District, Tanzania

Anselm

Mustafa²,

Godfrey³

2020

JPAG

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Civic engagement has been an area of research after adoption as an important approach to strengthen citizens’ voice, accountability and communication in public service delivery. However, there is mixed result on its relationship with public service delivery, particularly water services. Civic engagement studies consider collective action as critical success factor in public service delivery. Therefore, this study focused on testing the moderating effect of collective action on the relationship between civic engagement and water service delivery in Kondoa District Council of Tanzania using a cross-sectional design with a sample of 376 households. Cronbach’s alpha value was above 0.7, which was considered good and acceptable. The moderated binary logistic regression was used for data analysis. The analysis confirms the significant moderation effects of collective action on the relationship between citizens’ voice and all three-outcome variables, physical accessibility, quality, and quantity of water supplied. Similarly, collective action had a significant moderation effect on the relationship between accountability and domestic water service delivery variables except for the quantity of water supplied. Moreover, the effect of collective action in the relationship between communication and all the variables of water service delivery is not significant. The study concluded that the influence of civic engagement in water service delivery is effective when citizens are organised into collective action. The study recommends that civic engagement should be strengthened through tailor-made training and mentorship to implant collective action attributes to citizens on issues of public concern, i.e. water service delivery and management.

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Myth of Community

Cited by 331 publications

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What happens at the gap between knowledge and practice? Spaces of encounter and misencounter between environmental scientists and local people

What happens at the gap between knowledge and practice? Spaces of encounter and misencounter between environmental scientists and local people

The Politics of Knowledge in Inclusive Development and Innovation

The Moderating Effect of Collective Action in the Relationship between Civic Engagement and Water Service Delivery in Kondoa District, Tanzania

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