Knowledge for Justice Critical Perspectives from Southern African-Nordic Research Partnerships
With the adoption of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Paris Agreement, the purpose of development is being redefined in both social and environmental terms. Despite pushback from conservative forces, change is accelerating in many sectors. To drive this transformation...
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Baltimore, Maryland :
Project Muse
2018
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction / Tor Halvorsen, Hilde Ibsen, Henri-Count Evans and Sharon Penderis
- part I. Knowledge and neo-liberalism
- 1. The Sustainable Development Goals, knowledge production and the global struggle over values / Tor Halvorsen
- 2. The Sustainable Development Goals, the Paris Agreement and the Addis Agenda : neo-liberalism, unequal development and the rise of a new imperialism / Henri-Count Evans and Rosemary Musvipwa
- 3. Academic freedom and its enemies : lessons from Sweden / Jens Stilhoff Sörensen and Erik J Olsson
- 4. New public management as a mechanism of accumulation by dispossession : the case of a public bulk water provider in South Africa / Carina van Rooyen
- 5. To fit or not to fit, is that the question? Global goals, basic education and theories of knowledge in South Africa and Sweden / Hilde Ibsen, Sharon Penderis and Karin Bengtsson
- 6. Academia in the context of constraint and a performative SDG agenda : a perspective on South Africa / Suriamurthee Maistry and Erlend Eidsvik
- part II. North-south collaboration
- 7. Contributing to the agenda for sustainable development through north-south educational partnerships : an analysis of two Linnaeus-Palme staff-student exchanges between Sweden and South Africa / Kate Rowntree and Roddy Fox
- 8. Preparing to build researchers' capacity in development and community mobilisation : towards sustainable north-south collaborations / Thembinkosi E Mabila and Rachel J Singh
- 9. North-south research collaboration and the Sustainable Development Goals : challenges and opportunities for academics / Stephen Mago
- 10. Education for employability : a response to industry demands / Robert L Martin, Regina Krause, Martha T Namutuwa, Evgenia Mahler and Hartmut Domröse
- part III. Case studies
- 11. Contextual factors affecting the attainment of life satisfaction among elderly people in Zambia's North-Western Province / Mubiana K Sitali-Ngoma and Emmy H Mbozi
- 12. Home-school relations and the role of indigenous knowledge in early literacy learning : a case study from a rural school in Zambia / Anne Marit Vesteraas Danbolt, Dennis Banda, Jorgen Klein and Geoffrey Tambulukani
- 13. Relocation of the homestead : A customary practice in the communal areas of north-central Namibia / Antti Erkkilä and Nelago Indongo.
