Author: Moulio Moungbakou
Publisher: African Books Collective
ISBN: 1942876912
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 223
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This book addresses the epistemological, ethical and methodological challenges faced by African scholars in their research practices. The epistemological domain addresses three interrelated topics: how African university students ethnocentric choice of research topics hampers the production of knowledge; researchers adaptation of their research methods to improve validity; and the challenge of knowledge production on community museums plagued by gross inertia, irregularities, uncooperative gatekeepers and inadequate funding. The methodological domain foregrounds issues around scientific rigour, the criteria for what counts as quality research, and reporting standards. Contributors contend that the use of mixed methods provides the best scope for the effective study and evaluation of social issues. They also detail how better-funded projects tend to improve the respect of ethical standards especially as they pertain to the protection of subjects confidentiality. Self-financed researchers on the other hand tend to be less compliant, a challenge that afflict especially younger and inexperienced researchers. This volume thus contributes not only to a critical understanding of the challenges faced by social scientists in contemporary Africa, but also the prospects and mechanisms on how to improve knowledge production processes.
Author: Wiebke Keim
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317127692
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 288
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An innovative contribution to debates on the internationalization and globalization of the social sciences, this book pays particular attention to their theoretical and epistemological reconfiguration in the light of postcolonial critiques and critiques of Eurocentrism. Bringing together theoretical contributions and empirical case studies from around the world, including India, the Americas, South Africa, Australia and Europe, it engages in debates concerning public sociology and explores South-South research collaborations specific to the social sciences. Contributions transcend established critiques of Eurocentrism to make space for the idea of global social sciences and truly transnational research. Thematically arranged and both international and interdisciplinary in scope, this volume reflects the different theoretical and thematic backgrounds of the contributing authors, who enter into dialogue and debate with one another in the development of a more inclusive, more representative and more theoretically relevant stage for the social sciences. A rigorous critique of the contemporary state of the social sciences as well as an attempt to find another way of doing transnational sociology, Global Knowledge Production in the Social Sciences will appeal to scholars of sociology, political science and social theory with interests in the production of social scientific knowledge, postcolonialism and transnationalism in research.
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
ISBN: 9264106626
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 348
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Aid Activities in Africa provides detailed information on individual commitments, i.e. intended disbursements, of Official Development Assistance (ODA) to African countries for the year 2002.
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Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9789264106611
Category : Electronic books
Languages : en
Pages : 358
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Aid Activities in Africa provides detailed information on individual commitments, i.e. intended disbursements, of Official Development Assistance (ODA) to African countries for the year 2002. This yearly publication records the commitments reported by members of the OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC) and by multilateral institutions to the CRS Aid Activity database (Creditor Reporting System). Data presented are unique, comparable and consistent with definitions and methodologies of the DAC statistics. The information is designed for use by development agencies and institutions in terms of programming and analysis by country and by sector. For each developing country, activities are ordered by sector and by donor. DAC STATISTICS: ALSO AVAILABLE ON INTERNET AND ON CD-ROM The data are taken from the CRS database which is regularly updated and contains records from 1973 onwards. Data are available on the International Development Statistics Online on the DAC website at the following address: www.oecd.org/dac/stats, and on the yearly CD-ROM International Development Statistics. Selected development databases are also available on line via www.SourceOECD.org.
Author: Jieun Choi
Publisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN: 1464817618
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 300
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L‘avenir du travail en Afrique se penche sur deux questions fondamentales : comment créer des emplois productifs et comment subvenir aux besoins des laissés-pour-compte. Le rapport met en lumière comment l’adoption des technologies numériques, conjuguée à d’autres phénomènes mondiaux, transforme la nature du travail en Afrique subsaharienne et pose un défi en même temps qu’elle crée de nouvelles possibilités. Les auteurs montrent que les nouvelles technologies ne sont pas simplement synonymes de destruction d’emplois, comme on le craint généralement, mais qu’elles peuvent permettre aux pays africains de construire un monde du travail inclusif et offrir des opportunités aux travailleurs les moins qualifiés. Pour exploiter ces opportunités, cependant, il est indispensable de mettre en place des politiques publiques et de réaliser des investissements productifs dans quatre domaines principaux. Il faudra notamment promouvoir des technologies numériques inclusives, développer le capital humain d’une main-d’oeuvre jeune, globalement peu qualifiée et qui s’accroît rapidement, augmenter la productivité des entreprises et des travailleurs du secteur informel et élargir la couverture de la protection sociale pour atténuer les risques liés aux bouleversements du marché du travail. Le présent rapport, prolongement du Rapport sur le développement dans le monde 2019 de la Banque mondiale, aborde en conclusion d’importantes questions de politique publique qui viendront alimenter de futurs travaux de recherche permettant de guider les pays africains sur la voie d’une croissance plus inclusive.
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Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 782
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A quarterly journal of the Council for the Development of Economic and Social Research in Africa = Revue trimestrielle du conseil pour le développement de la recherche economique et sociale en Afrique.
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Publisher: KARTHALA Editions
ISBN: 2811106545
Category : College students
Languages : fr
Pages : 374
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A l'image de l'université de Makerere qui a accueilli il y a quelques années les auteurs de cet ouvrage, rassemblés pour faire le point sur la situation de la recherche dans leurs pays respectifs, les universités d'Afrique de l'Est et de la région des Grands Lacs ont surmonté les destructions de toutes sortes qui ont frappé la région durant les années 1990. Après une décennie de crises politiques, sociales et économiques, le tournant du XXIe siècle voit se développer une sorte de renaissance. Du Burundi au Kenya, de l'Ouganda au Rwanda, de la République démocratique du Congo à la Tanzanie, les universitaires et chercheurs regroupés ici témoignent, dans leurs monographies, des réflexions qui traversent leur collectivité scientifique, qu'il s'agisse des universités de Dar es-Salaam ou de Lubumbashi, de celle de Ngozi dans le nord du Burundi ou du Pole Institute au Nord-Kivu. Ce livre fait écho à des débats tant scientifiques que politiques, institutionnels ou sociaux. Ils portent sur les enjeux des différentes disciplines des sciences humaines (histoire, géographie, linguistique, science politique), en particulier dans leur confrontation avec les obsessions identitaires nourries par les conflits. Les institutions universitaires africaines se trouvent en outre confrontées au mouvement général de redéfinition qui touche aujourd'hui l'enseignement supérieur au niveau mondial. Enfin, le statut des enseignants-chercheurs doit aussi compter avec le développement de l'expertise, avec tous les défis de ces recherches appliquées. Un intellectuel du Kivu disait récemment : "J'ai toujours pensé que l'intellectuel, c'est celui qui doit créer le changement ". Une mission qui est rappelée ici avec clarté, tant les défis et les chantiers sont nombreux dans une région en reconstruction où les populations aspirent à plus de démocratie et à un mieux-être économique.
Author: Alice L. Conklin
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 080146904X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 389
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In the Museum of Man offers new insight into the thorny relationship between science, society, and empire at the high-water mark of French imperialism and European racism. Alice L. Conklin takes us into the formative years of French anthropology and social theory between 1850 and 1900; then deep into the practice of anthropology, under the name of ethnology, both in Paris and in the empire before and especially after World War I; and finally, into the fate of the discipline and its practitioners under the German Occupation and its immediate aftermath. Conklin addresses the influence exerted by academic networks, museum collections, and imperial connections in defining human diversity socioculturally rather than biologically, especially in the wake of resurgent anti-Semitism at the time of the Dreyfus Affair and in the 1930s and 1940s. Students of the progressive social scientist Marcel Mauss were exposed to the ravages of imperialism in the French colonies where they did fieldwork; as a result, they began to challenge both colonialism and the scientific racism that provided its intellectual justification. Indeed, a number of them were killed in the Resistance, fighting for the humanist values they had learned from their teachers and in the field. A riveting story of a close-knit community of scholars who came to see all societies as equally complex, In the Museum of Man serves as a reminder that if scientific expertise once authorized racism, anthropologists also learned to rethink their paradigms and mobilize against racial prejudice—a lesson well worth remembering today.
Author: Sari Hanafi
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317364104
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 371
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Over recent decades we have witnessed the globalization of research. However, this has yet to translate into a worldwide scientific network, across which competencies and resources can flow freely. Arab countries have strived to join this globalized world and become a ‘knowledge economy,’ yet little time has been invested in the region’s fragmented scientific institutions; institutions that should provide opportunities for individuals to step out on the global stage. Knowledge Production in the Arab World investigates research practices in the Arab world, using multiple case studies from the region with particular focus on Lebanon and Jordan. It depicts the Janus-like face of Arab research, poised between the negative and the positive and faced with two potentially opposing strands; local relevance alongside its internationalization. The book critically assesses the role and dynamics of research and poses questions that are crucial to further our understanding of the very particular case of knowledge production in the Arab region. The book explores research’s relevance and whom it serves, as well as the methodological flaws behind academic rankings and the meaning and application of key concepts such as knowledge society/economy. Providing a detailed and comprehensive examination of knowledge production in the Arab world, this book is of interest to students, scholars and policy makers working on the issues of research practices and status of science in contemporary developing countries.
Author: Johan Heilbron
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319732994
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 381
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This volume employs new empirical data to examine the internationalization of the social sciences and humanities (SSH). While the globalization dynamics that have transformed the shape of the world over the last decades has been the subject of a growing number of scientific studies, very few such studies have set out to analyze the globalization of social and human sciences themselves. Arguing against the complacent assumption that Science is ‘international by nature’, this work demonstrates that the growing circulation of scholars and scientific ideas is a complex, contradictory and contested process. Arranged thematically, the chapters in this volume present a coherent exploration of patterns of transnationalization, South-North and East-West exchanges, and transnational regionalization. Further, they offer fresh insight into specific topics including the influence of the Anglo-American research infrastructure and the development of social and human sciences in postcolonial contexts. Featuring contributions from leading international scholars in the field, this work will advance the research agenda and will have interdisciplinary appeal for scholars from across the social sciences.
