Type one or more search terms into the search box and click on the search button.
The search engine does not distinguish between lowercase and uppercase letters.
A results page will be produced: a list of web pages related to your search terms, with the most relevant page appearing first, then the next, and so on.
Boolean operators
The operator AND is set as default between words. You can combine several words or phrases by using the logical operators ‘OR’ and ‘AND’.
You can also use plus or minus marks for including or excluding words (see below).
Ranking
The more of the words that are present in the page, the higher is the score.
If words appear in the same order as in your query, and close to each other, the score of the document gets high.
Phrase Search
Use quotation marks to compound phrases. If you wish to search for a phrase, you write text inside “…”quotation marks.
Eg. "African studies"
Truncation
Use * for truncation of search terms. A search term does not always have to be entered in its complete form. Search terms may be truncated from left or right.
Eg. Tanza* or even *anza*
Prioritizing Words
Plus marks a word as necessary. By preceding a word or a phrase with a plus sign, you tell the search engine that you are only looking for documents that contain that word/phrase.
Eg. +policy +activities
Word Exclusion
Minus marks a word as not wanted. By preceding a word or phrase with a minus sign, you tell the search engine to exclude that word/phrase and only to look for documents that match the rest of the query.
Eg. nordic -africa –institute
Contact: dill@illinois.edu
|
The purpose of this panel is to examine critically the term “community” as it is deployed in contemporary development discourse and practice. The ambition is to deepen our understanding of how communities are imagined, identified, territorialized, and ruled in relation to development agendas. This knowledge is important because, over the past two decades, community has become an indispensable component of efforts to channel development assistance. Most development agencies maintain an explicit commitment to community-based (CBD) and -driven (CDD) development, and community-based natural resource management (CBNRM) now attracts widespread international attention.
Development scholars and practitioners have thus far confronted the many shortcomings of the community-based approach in two ways. First, they have sought to alter the cultural conditions of the target communities, by attempting to change the prevailing mentalities, value structures, institutions, and practices. Second, they have emphasized the need to adapt development policies to the local context, acknowledging the unlikely fit between externally derived institutions and the deeply held norms and values of recipient cultures. They have done little to interrogate the meaning of community, however. The term is used favorably to suggest a culturally and politically homogenous collectivity or administrative area. Such unqualified usage is problematic in that it obscures local structures of power and, more importantly, fails to direct attention towards those who deploy the term and with what objective. The broad aim of the proposed panel is thus to move development studies beyond the uncritical use of the term community.
|
Accepted Abstracts
"Communities"' and the Creation of Political Order in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Scalar Dimensions of Community: The Sharia Implementation in Nigeria as Example
Re-negotiating the Boundaries and Authority Structures of Communities - Local Power, State Building and the Globalisation of Environmental Governance in Northwestern Namibia
Carving up Communities: Local Governance, Boundaries, and the Promise of Community-based Natural Resource Management in Mozambique
