The Bukavu Series

Author : Aymar Nyenyezi,An Ansoms,Koen Vlassenroot,Emery Mudinga,Godefroid Muzalia
Publisher : Presses universitaires de Louvain
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9782390610045

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The Bukavu Series by Aymar Nyenyezi,An Ansoms,Koen Vlassenroot,Emery Mudinga,Godefroid Muzalia Pdf

They are qualified, experienced, motivated, academically accomplished. They work tirelessly, collecting invaluable data in the field under conditions that are always challenging, and at times dangerous. And yet, their voices are unheard, and their names go unacknowledged in published research. Such is the lot of far too many research assistants from the Global South – people upon whose work an entire industry of knowledge production has been built. They are shut out of discussions on project design and left in the dark about the modalities of research funding. Later, the results of their research are published in journals to which they often have no access. Much of this is due to a certain omertà surrounding power imbalances, as well as research assistants' working conditions, financial difficulties, psychological traumas, and vulnerabilities. It also stems from the persistence of colonial mentalities in the research world – within universities, governments, foundations, aid institutions, and NGO’s. The Bukavu Series is a vibrant blog series about the experiences of research assistants in the Global South. Driven primarily by these silent voices, the series yields a mosaic depiction of fieldwork that mixes humor, realism, and incisive critique. This book offers a unique entry point into a critical debate, leading us toward concrete reforms, and setting us on the course toward a decolonisation of research.

Author : Max Taylor,John Horgan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000481242

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Ethics and Terrorism by Max Taylor,John Horgan Pdf

This book provides a unique insight into the ethical issues and dilemmas facing practitioners and researchers of terrorism and counterterrorism. Ethics play a central if, largely, unrecognised role in most, if not all, issues relevant to terrorism and political violence. These are often most noticeable regarding counterterrorism controversies, while often virtually absent from discussions about academic research practice. At a minimum, ethical issues as they relate to terrorism have rarely been explicitly addressed in a direct or comprehensive manner. The chapters in this edited volume draws on the experience of both practitioners and researchers to explore how a regard to ethical issues might influence and determine research and practice in counter terrorism, and in our understanding of terrorism. Ethics and Terrorism recognizes that there are conflicting and often irreconcilable perspectives from which to view terrorism and terrorism research. In calling for greater attention to these issues, the goal is not to resolve problems, but to explore and clarify the assumptions and dilemmas that underpin our understanding of the personal, institutional and societal ethical boundaries and constraints around terrorism and responses to it. This book will be of value to practitioners and researchers, and to policy makers and the broader interested community. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the journal Terrorism and Political Violence.

Author : Annie Bunting,Allen Kiconco,Joel Quirk
Publisher : Ohio University Press
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2023-10-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780821447987

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Research as More Than Extraction by Annie Bunting,Allen Kiconco,Joel Quirk Pdf

This volume offers practical, detailed guidance and case studies on how to avoid exacerbating inequalities while researching gender-based violence and other related issues in Africa. Wartime violence and its aftermath present numerous practical, ethical, and political challenges that are especially acute for researchers working on gender-based and sexual violence. Drawing upon applied examples from across the African continent, this volume features unique contributions from researchers and practitioners with decades of experience developing research partnerships, designing and undertaking fieldwork, asking sensitive questions, negotiating access, collecting and evaluating information, and validating results. These are all endeavors that also raise pressing ethical questions, especially in relation to retraumatization, social stigma, and even payment of participants. Ethical and methodological questions cannot be separated from political and institutional considerations. Systems of privilege and marginalization cannot be wished away, so they need to be both interrogated and contested. This is where precedents and power relations established under colonialism and imperialism take center stage. Europeans have been extracting valuable resources from the African continent for centuries. Research into gender-based violence risks being yet another extractive industry. There are times when committed individuals can make valuable contributions to a more equitable future, but funding streams, knowledge hierarchies, and institutional positions continue to have powerful effects. Accordingly, the contributors to this volume also concentrate upon the layered effects of power and position, relationships between researchers, organizations, and communities, and the political economy of knowledge production; this brings into focus questions about how and why information gets generated, for which kinds of audiences, and for whose benefit.

Author : Briony Jones
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2021-02-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781789905359

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Knowledge for Peace by Briony Jones Pdf

Combining the knowledge and experience of leading international researchers, practitioners and policy consultants, Knowledge for Peace discusses how we identify, claim and contest the knowledge we have in relation to designing and analysing peacebuilding and transitional justice programmes. Exploring how knowledge in the field is produced, and by whom, the book examines the research-policy-practice nexus, both empirically and conceptually, as an important part of the politics of knowledge production.

Author : David Lewis,Dennis Rodgers,Michael Woolcock,Michael J. V. Woolcock
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Communication in economic development
ISBN : 9780198858751

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New Mediums, Better Messages? by David Lewis,Dennis Rodgers,Michael Woolcock,Michael J. V. Woolcock Pdf

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY 3.0 IGO International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. The notion of development influences and is influenced by all aspects of human life. Social science is but one representational option among many for conveying the myriad ways in which development is conceived, encountered, experienced, justified, courted, and/or resisted by different groups at particular times and places. As international development has become more quantitative and economics-centred, there is an enduring sense that what is measured (and thus 'valued' and prioritized) may have become too narrow, that the powers of prediction claimed by some areas of economics and management may have overreached, and that the human dimension is in danger of being lost. Reflecting this concern, New Mediums, Better Messages? contributes to new conversations between science, social science, and the humanities around the roles of different kinds of knowledge, stories, and data play in relation to global development. It brings together a team of multidisciplinary contributors to explore popular representions of development, including music, blogs, and fiction.

Author : Oscar Abedi Dunia,Anju Oseema Maria Toppo,James B.M. Vincent
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2023-07-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781350265684

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Facilitating Researchers in Insecure Zones by Oscar Abedi Dunia,Anju Oseema Maria Toppo,James B.M. Vincent Pdf

This volume brings together accounts from facilitating or 'brokering' researchers in three settings afflicted by armed conflict, including DR Congo, Sierra Leone and Jharkhand, India. Indispensable to the research practice carried out by so-called 'contracting researchers', who are often based in the Global North, it is these facilitating researchers who truly regulate the access and flow of knowledge, and yet are often referred to merely as 'fixers', with their contributions systematically erased in the final research texts. This book recounts first-hand the varied and crucial roles played by such researchers, meanwhile bearing witness to the insecurities and scarce resources navigated by them in order to facilitate the research of others. By listening to and learning from their experiences, the book outlines different routes towards a more equitable fieldwork, and a more collaborative process of knowledge production.

Author : Nicole Eggers
Publisher : Ohio University Press
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2023-10-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780821426098

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Unruly Ideas by Nicole Eggers Pdf

Original oral and ethnographic sources inform this conceptual history of power in central Africa, imagined through the lens of Kitawala religious practices. Unruly Ideas: A History of Kitawala in Congo recounts the multifaceted history of the Congolese religious movement Kitawala from its colonial beginnings in the 1920s through its continued practice in some of the most conflict-riven parts of the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo today. Drawing on a rich body of original oral, ethnographic, and archival research, Nicole Eggers uses Kitawala as a lens through which to address the complex relationship between politics, religion, healing, and violence in central African history. Kitawala, which has roots in the African Watchtower (Jehovah’s Witness) movement, has long been viewed both by scholars and by popular historians as a form of male-dominated, anticolonial insurgency. But just as Kitawalists were never exclusively male, their teachings and activities were never directed solely at the Belgian colonial state, and their yearnings for self-rule were never entirely about the secular realms of authority. A more comprehensive look at the oral and archival evidence reveals they were and are concerned with the morality of power more broadly: on state, communal, and individual levels. Moreover, Kitawalist doctrine is itself unruly, and its preachers, prophets, and practitioners have articulated innumerable interpretations—most quite different from Watchtower Christianity—across space and time. More than a case study of a particular religious movement, Unruly Ideas is a conceptual history of power that investigates how communities and individuals in the region have historically imagined power, sought to access it, wielded it, and policed the morality of its uses. By focusing on power and its intellectual and social history in Congo, Unruly Ideas creates an analytical space in which readers can understand the differing manifestations of Kitawala—from its overtly political and sometimes violent moments to those more aptly characterized as individual quests for spiritual and physical therapy—as varying themes in the same story: the pursuit of wellness in the context of malady. On a more practical level, the book raises important questions about the project of writing histories of places like eastern Congo: a region where the repercussions of decades of political neglect, upheaval, and violence force us to reconsider how we can think about and use oral and archival sources. Finally, the book investigates the embodied and gendered nature of field research and interrogates the intersubjective and reciprocal nature of knowledge production.

Author : Silke Roth,Bandana Purkayastha,Tobias Denskus
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 631 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2024-02-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781802206555

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Handbook on Humanitarianism and Inequality by Silke Roth,Bandana Purkayastha,Tobias Denskus Pdf

This prescient Handbook examines how legacies of colonialism, gender, class, and other markers of inequality intersect with contemporary humanitarianism at multiple levels.

Author : Andreas Mehler,Henning Melber,Klaas van Walraven
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 511 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2005-12-01
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9789047416586

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Africa Yearbook Volume 1 by Andreas Mehler,Henning Melber,Klaas van Walraven Pdf

The Africa Yearbook is a reliable source of reference covering major domestic political developments, the foreign policy and socio-economic trends of all sub-Saharan states – all related to developments in one calendar year.

Author : R. M. Teeuw
Publisher : Geological Society of London
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1862392293

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Mapping Hazardous Terrain Using Remote Sensing by R. M. Teeuw Pdf

The dangers that we face from geohazards appear to be getting worse, especially with the impact of increasing population and global climate change. This collection of papers illustrates how remote sensing technologies - measuring, mapping and monitoring the Earth's surface from aircraft or satellites - can help us to rapidly detect and better manage geohazards. The hazardous terrains examined include areas of landslides, flooding, erosion, contaminated land, shrink-swell clays, subsidence, seismic activity and volcanic landforms. Key aspects of remote sensing are introduced, making this a book that can easily be read by those who are unfamiliar with remote sensing. The featured remote sensing systems include aerial photography and photogrammetry, thermal scanning, hyperspectral sensors, airborne laser altimetry (LiDAR), radar interferometry and multispectral satellites (Landsat, ASTER). Related technologies and methodologies, such as the processing of Digital Elevation Models and data analysis using Geographical Information Systems, are also discussed.

Author : Deborah Levison,Mary Jo Maynes,Frances Vavrus
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2021-04-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030636326

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Children and Youth as Subjects, Objects, Agents by Deborah Levison,Mary Jo Maynes,Frances Vavrus Pdf

This textbook showcases innovative approaches to the interdisciplinary field of childhood and youth studies, examining how young people in a wide range of contemporary and historical contexts around the globe live their young lives as subjects, objects, and agents. The diverse contributions examine how children and youth are simultaneously constructed: as individual subjects through social processes and culturally-specific discourses; as objects of policy intervention and other adult power plays; and also as active agents who act on their world and make meaning even amidst conditions of social, political, and economic marginalization. In addition, the book is centrally engaged with questions about how researchers take into consideration children’s and young people’s own conceptions of themselves and how we conceptualize child and youth potentials for agency at different ages and stages of growing up. Each chapter discusses substantive research but also engages in self-reflection about methodology, positionality, and/or disciplinarity, thus making the volume especially useful for teaching. This book will be of interest to students and scholars across a range of disciplines, including childhood studies, youth studies, girls’ studies, development studies, research methods, sociology, anthropology, education, history, geography, public policy, cultural studies, gender and women’s studies and global studies.

Author : Elizabeth Faulkner
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2024-04-30
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781529224702

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Modern Slavery in Global Context by Elizabeth Faulkner Pdf

This collection brings together academics from a range of disciplines to examine modern slavery. Providing a platform to critique the legal, ideological and political responses to the issue, experts interrogate the construct of modern slavery and the anti-trafficking discourse which have dominated contemporary responses to exploitation.

Author : D.M. Pyle,T.A. Mather,J. Biggs
Publisher : Geological Society of London
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2014-01-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781862393622

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Remote Sensing of Volcanoes and Volcanic Processes by D.M. Pyle,T.A. Mather,J. Biggs Pdf

This volume focuses on how advances in both remote sensing and modelling can be brought together to improve our understanding of the behaviour of active volcanoes. It includes review papers, papers reporting technical advances and case studies showing how the integration of remote-sensing observations with models can be put to good use.

Author : Heinz Leitgöb,Tobias Wolbring,Dimitri Prandner
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2023-06-05
Category : Science
ISBN : 9782832525142

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Big data and machine learning in sociology by Heinz Leitgöb,Tobias Wolbring,Dimitri Prandner Pdf

Author : R.D. van der Hilst,W.F. McDonough
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1999-10-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 0080529453

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Composition, Deep Structure and Evolution of Continents by R.D. van der Hilst,W.F. McDonough Pdf

The ensemble of manuscripts presented in this special volume captures the stimulating cross-disciplinary dialogue from the International Symposium on Deep Structure, Composition, and Evolution of Continents, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 15-17 October 1997. It will provide an update on recent research developments and serve as a starting point for research of the many outstanding issues. After its formation at mid-oceanic spreading centers, oceanic lithosphere cools, thickens, and subsides, until it subducts into the deep mantle beneath convergent margins. As a result of this continuous recycling process oceanic lithosphere is typically less than 200 million years old (the global average is about 80 Myr). A comprehensive, multi-disciplinary study of continents involves a wide range of length scales: tiny rock samples and diamond inclusions may yield isotope and trace element signatures diagnostic for the formation age and evolution of (parts of) cratons, while geophysical techniques (e.g., seismic and electromagnetic imaging) constrain variations of elastic and conductive properties over length scales ranging from several to many thousand kilometers. Integrating and reconciling this information is far from trivial and, as several papers in this volume document, the relationships between, for instance, formation age and tectonic behavior on the one hand and the seismic signature, heat flow, and petrology on the other may not be uniform but may vary both within as well as between cratons. These observations complicate attempts to determine the variations of one particular observable (e.g., heat flow, lithosphere thickness) as a function of another (e.g., crustal age) on the basis of global data compilations and tectonic regionalizations. Important conclusions of the work presented here are that (1) continental deformation, for instance shortening, is not restricted to the crust but also involves the lithospheric mantle; (2) the high wavespeed part of continental lithospheric mantle is probably thinner than inferred previously from vertically travelling body waves or form global surface-wave models; and (3) the seismic signature of ancient continents is more complex than expected from a uniform relationship with crustal age.