1,721,072 research outputs found
Colonial imaginaries, colonized places
No full textThis chapter examines the production of colonial imaginaries in the practice of Empire and how they were manifest, and contested, in colonized places. It considers the specificities of place in accounts of colonialism in order to appreciate the situatedness of colonial rule, and the entanglements of its material and discursive forces. It begins with an examination of how power was inscribed onto the fabric of colonized places through the creation of dual cities in which separate European cantonments and native quarters were established. Drawing on research with former colonial administrators, the chapter goes on to reveal the contingent and heterogeneous character of these colonial places. It further explores collaborations between anti-colonial leaders exiled by the British to the Seychelles to demonstrate how colonial imaginaries of, and practices in, colonized places were not transferred seamlessly but were resisted in various ways. The chapter concludes with a discussion of contemporary postcolonial legacies
Individuals, organisations and public action : trajectories of the non-governmental in development studies
No full textThis chapter offers a personal reflection on the rise of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) as a subject of study within development studies. It traces the history of this topic, and locates this history within the broader context of the rise of neoliberalism
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
'People's knowledge', participation and patronage: operations and representations in rural development
No full textSpatial practices and imaginaries: Experiences of colonial officers and development professionals
No full textThis paper explores the spatiality of colonial and postcolonial power and discourse as produced, performed and imagined by former British colonial service officers and contemporary UK international development professionals. It focuses on two key aspects of spatial practices. The first addresses the spaces inhabited by these colonial officers and development professionals overseas and how their locatedness, embedded or enclavic, shapes relationships to others. The second explores this distinctive social and spatial distancing through their relationship to, and imagined geographies of, home and away and how these are embodied in their institutional and cultural capital. The paper examines the regularities and consistencies that stand out from numerous individual practices through which both former colonial officers and development professionals negotiate the situations in which they live and work. It also specifies how authoritative management, privilege and distance informs their spatial practices despite changing global contexts and a more diverse composition of those who articulate contemporary relationships between 'first' and 'third' worlds. Finally, the paper suggests that the cultures which travelled over colonial space through being performed by colonial officers have been reworked throughout the postcolonial period, belying epochal historical periodizations that conjure up a clear disjuncture between colonial and development eras. © 2006 The Author; Journal compilation © 2006 Department of Geography, National University of Singapore and Blackwell Publishing Asia Pty Ltd
- …
