Framing African Development

Challenging Concepts

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Where do the concepts come from, at what time and why? How has the content of the concepts changed over time, and why? What can the use of the concepts in research add to the understanding of societal change and development?

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Brill
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 155mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 295g
• ISBN-13: 9789004305410
• ISBN-10: 9004305416
• Artikelnr.: 43776711

Autorenporträt

Kjell Havnevik, Ph.D, University of Bradford, UK (1988), is Senior Researcher at the Nordic Africa Institute, Uppsala, Sweden, and Professor at the University of Agder, Norway. His experience of four decades of research, academic supervision, education and advisory work was primarily gained in Norwegian, Swedish and Tanzanian universities and research institutes. Terje Oestigaard Dr. art, (2004), is a Senior Researcher and the cluster leader of the 'Rural and Agrarian Change, Property and Resources' cluster at the Nordic Africa Institute (Uppsala), and docent in archaeology at Uppsala University. Eva Tobisson, Ph.D. in social anthropology, Göteborg University (1986), participated as editor of this book on a secondment as researcher to the Nordic Africa Institute (Uppsala), from her permanent position as Senior Adviser (development policy) at Sweden's Ministry for Foreign Affairs. She was Director of the Development Studies Unit, Department of Social Anthropology, Stockholm University, in 1993-1999. Tea Virtanen, Ph.D. in cultural anthropology, University of Helsinki (2003), is currently a Finnish Academy research fellow at the University of Helsinki, Finland. She was an Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology at the University of Joensuu, Finland, in 2002-2005, and held the Finnish research position at the Nordic Africa Institute, Uppsala, Sweden, in 2010-2013.