ABSTRACT
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 reflexive 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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |16 pages
Making knowledge work differently
part I|46 pages
Crossing epistemic boundaries
chapter 1|15 pages
Making transdisciplinarity work
chapter 3|15 pages
A transdisciplinary perspective on gender mainstreaming in international development: the case of the CGIAR
part II|54 pages
Decolonising knowledge integration
chapter 4|15 pages
A systemic approach to the decolonisation of knowledge
chapter 5|24 pages
How the elite capture critique is used to legitimise top-down control of development resources
chapter 6|13 pages
‘Development' perspectives from the Global South
part III|46 pages
Learning for transformative change
chapter 9|16 pages
Learning from histories of gender and racial segregation in agricultural education and extension worldwide
part IV|34 pages
Rethinking evidence in development
chapter 10|16 pages
Theorising theories of change in international development
part V|44 pages
Negotiating technological change and digitalisation
chapter 12|15 pages
A problematisation of inclusion and exclusion
chapter 13|13 pages
Responsibly designing digital agriculture services under uncertainty in the Global South
chapter 14|14 pages
Mobilising knowledge sharing in the agricultural advisory system
part VI|42 pages
Governing knowledge and innovation