Geography in the International Agricultural Research Centers: Theoretical and Practical Concerns

Bebbington, Anthony; Carney, Judith

doi:10.1111/j.1467-8306.1990.tb00002.x

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“…6 Governance institutions and landscapes examined include: (1) community-and user-based management (nationally and internationally influenced) of fisheries, marine organisms, and forestry and range resources (Robbins 1998;St. Martin 2001;Young 2001;Mutersbaugh 2002;Mansfield 2004;McCarthy 2006;Campbell 2007); (2) water resources in urban planning, international relations, and irrigation, including response management and mitigation of climate change (Emel and Roberts 1995;Perreault 2008;Birkenholtz 2009;Feitelson and Fischhendler 2009;Norman and Bakker 2009;Gober et al 2010); (3) biodiversity and environmental conservation (Zimmerer 1999;Campbell 2007;Roth 2008); (4) agriculture, land tenure, land change, pesticide use, and agrarian reform and policy institutions, including urban and periurban food production (Bebbington and Carney 1990;Grossman 1993;Muldavin 1997;Schroeder 1997;Awanyo 2001;Freidberg 2001;Hovorka 2005;Unruh 2006;Galt 2010;Jepson, Brannstrom, and Filippi 2010); (5) modern environmentalism and justice movements (Bowen et al 1995;Pulido 2000;Liu 2008); (6) state environmental and energy agencies (Feldman and Jonas 2000;Heiman and Solomon 2004); and (7) industrial and manufacturing regulation (Willems-Braun 1997;R. A. Walker 2001;Prudham 2003).…”

Section: Environmental Governance and Political Ecologymentioning

confidence: 99%

Retrospective on Nature–Society Geography: Tracing Trajectories (1911–2010) and Reflecting on Translations

Zimmerer

2010

Annals of the Association of American Geographers

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Section: Environmental Governance and Political Ecologymentioning

confidence: 99%

Retrospective on Nature–Society Geography: Tracing Trajectories (1911–2010) and Reflecting on Translations

Zimmerer

2010

Annals of the Association of American Geographers

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“…For example, Ed Carr (2011) pursues research in West Africa that is partly linked to USAID programs, while long ago Tony Bebbington and Judith Carney (1990) advocated working with International Agricultural Research Centres, and Bebbington worked at the World Bank on several projects. Indeed, political ecologists have been employed in such agencies as the UK's Department for International Development, and diverse Scandinavian aid agencies (Bebbington and Carney, 1990;Batterbury and Horowitz, forthcoming). Piers Blaikie, based at the University of East Anglia, held an academic post where a percentage of his work was conducted as a consultant, the majority of which was with development agencies.…”

Section: Engagementmentioning

confidence: 99%

Doing political ecology inside and outside the academy

Batterbury¹

2015

The International Handbook of Political Ecology

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The chapter presents a survey of political ecology (PE) scholarship in, and beyond, academic institutions. This interdisciplinary field makes a contribution to understanding environmental and social justice issues, that require explanations at multiple scales, often challenging powerful state and corporate actors. Radical and critical scholarship like PE survives because of sustained student demand, but in neoliberal universities battling financial shortfalls and sometimes a reluctance to invest in research areas that offer critique of powerful institutions and of injustice. Political ecologists have a substantial presence in North America and Europe, either as individual scholars or in small research clusters, but are found across the world and are networked virtually and through key events and collaborative ventures. Publishing outlets include at least three dedicated journals. The extent to which academic political ecology can, and should, make a contribution to engaged scholarship, stepping beyond the boundaries of academic investigation into the messy world of environmental politics is debated, but embraced by some academics, numerous NGOs, and civil society organizations. The future of the field is assured if environmental despoliation, denial of access to resources, and inequality continues; and if its hopes for better world are not extinguished by much more powerful actors in and outside the university system. This chapter reflects on some practical settings in which political ecology is done inside and beyond academia. 1

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“…In contrast, there are scholars advocating that academics must engage with development institutions in order to understand fully the challenges of implementation. As Bebbington and Bebbington (2001: 7) note, ‘we suggest that a closer engagement with the dilemmas encountered in practical attempts to pursue development alternatives can suggest ways forward’ (see also Bebbington & Carney, 1990).…”

Section: Fieldwork and Academic Partnerships With Development Organizmentioning

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Collaborating in the field, working for change: Reflecting on partnerships between academics, development organizations and rural communities in Africa

Moseley

2007

Singap J Trop Geogr

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Academics and development organizations approach fieldwork with somewhat different motivations, constraints and challenges. In many instances, fieldwork might be improved if greater collaboration occurred between these two parties. Rural communities are also important yet frequently taken for granted partners in the research process that deserve greater respect. This paper explores and describes the real and imagined impediments to greater collaboration between academics, development organizations and rural communities. The findings are based on 18 years of working with rural communities in Africa, both as a development practitioner and academic researcher. This reflection makes three contributions to the broader literature on fieldwork. First, it explicitly links two ongoing discussions, one on relationships with institutional partners, the other on interactions with rural communities. Second, it articulates the concerns of development organizations in their partnerships with academic researchers, a perspective rarely heard in a literature dominated by academic voices. Third, while feminist scholarship on fieldwork methods often wrestles with issues of positionality and engagement at the scale of the individual researcher, this reflection is aimed at the broader scale of the professional (academic and practitioner) communities involved in development praxis and scholarship.

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Geography in the International Agricultural Research Centers: Theoretical and Practical Concerns

Cited by 19 publications

References 24 publications

Retrospective on Nature–Society Geography: Tracing Trajectories (1911–2010) and Reflecting on Translations

Retrospective on Nature–Society Geography: Tracing Trajectories (1911–2010) and Reflecting on Translations

Doing political ecology inside and outside the academy

Collaborating in the field, working for change: Reflecting on partnerships between academics, development organizations and rural communities in Africa

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