We called the global creative community for contributions by summer 2020 in an attempt to map practices generating and sharing alternative knowledges across a variety of methods forms.
 Our call accepts that there may be infinite number equally valid, but possibly less accessible – or merely certain communities knowledge systems, much like concurrent physics is considering existence multiv...

This paper contributes to building respectful relationships between Indigenous (First Nations, Métis, and Inuit) peoples Canada's cultural memory institutions, such as libraries, archives museums, applies knowledge repositories that hold tangible intangible traditional knowledge. The central goal of the is advance understandings allow institutions respect, affirm, recognize ownership their livi...

Review of
 UNCERTAIN ARCHIVES: CRITICAL KEYWORDS FOR BIG DATA
 EDITED BY NANNA BONDE THYLSTRUP, DANIELA AGOSTINHO, ANNIE RING, CATHERINE D’IGNAZIO AND KRISTIN VEEL
 
 CAMBRIDGE: THE MIT PRESS, 2021. 640 PAGES
 ISBN: 9780262539883

— One of the more overlooked aspects of globalization is the circulation of modern managerial practices and knowledges through transnational networks of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs). In this paper, we offer an analytical framework for understanding the complex circulation of managerialism through dispersed networks of NGOs, connecting the spatially extensive international NGO (INGO) sec...

Over the past quarter century, a new scientific activity has emerged: collective assessments by large numbers of scientists from different disciplines combining their expertise to better understand human interrelations with nature and to inform policy. The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment exceeded all such assessments before it in both the breadth of its coverage and the depth of its analysis of...

The use of local knowledge in and for development is a relatively recent phenomenon, entering the realm of development theory and practice from the mid 1970s, yet it has become a key part of the rhetoric and practice of development agencies and academic research. The conceptual and historical background to local knowledge in development, including its roots of ‘Western’ engagement with ‘other’ ...

The aim of this paper is to investigate the ways in which changing gender roles in a Bedouin community in Upper Egypt, brought about by settlement over the last 20 years on the shores of Lake Nasser, have impacted on the accumulation and development of indigenous environmental knowledges by Bedouin women. The research was carried out among four groups of Ababda Bedouin in the Eastern Desert of ...