Encounters and Places: Project Negotiations in Galessa, Ethiopia

Autor/inn/en	Habermann, Birgit; Felt, Ulrike; Vogl, Christian R.; Bekele, Kassahun; Mekonnen, Kindu
Titel	Encounters and Places: Project Negotiations in Galessa, Ethiopia
Quelle	In: Multicultural Education & Technology Journal, 6 (2012) 4, S.218-234 (17 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1750-497X
Schlagwörter	Cooperation; Research Projects; Social Studies; Technology Transfer; Foreign Countries; Participant Observation; Delivery Systems; Rural Development; Semi Structured Interviews; Interpersonal Relationship; Power Structure; Agricultural Occupations; Scientists; Information Technology; Decision Making; Intercultural Communication; Ethiopia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Co-operation; Kooperation; Forschungsvorhaben; Gemeinschaftskunde; Technologietransfer; Ausland; Teilnehmende Beobachtung; Auslieferung; Rural environment; Development; Ländliches Milieu; Entwicklung; Interpersonal relation; Interpersonal relations; Interpersonelle Beziehung; Zwischenmenschliche Beziehung; Agriculture; Occupation; Landwirtschaft; Beruf; Landwirtschaftlicher Beruf; Scientist; Wissenschaftler; Informationstechnologie; Decision-making; Entscheidungsfindung; Interkulturelle Kommunikation; Äthiopien
Abstract	Purpose: Reflections on negotiation processes between farmers and scientists in research projects provide insights into issues of participation, power and equity. The purpose of this paper is to illustrate how actors chose places to meet, negotiate and represent technologies. Design/methodology/approach: The research involved semi-structured interviews and participant observation with farmers, scientists, government agricultural advisors (extensionists), policymakers, and staff of development organisations involved in a research for development project in Western Shewa, Ethiopia from 2009 to 2011. It combines theories from social studies of science as well as development studies. Findings: Using blueprint approaches in research projects will not yield sustainable results. Participation must go beyond consultation or trying to educate farmers. Social relations are at the core of cooperation between farmers and scientists and require much more attention. Powerful choices on modes of representation and communication technologies as well as unilateral decisions on places have important implications for the way decisions are eventually made and by whom. Originality/value: This approach to studying research for development projects from social studies of science perspectives adds new insights into debates on participation and power in technology transfer and multicultural cooperation in rural development. (Contains 1 figure, 1 table and 10 notes.) (As Provided).
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