Changing women's roles, changing environmental knowledges: evidence from Upper Egypt [PDF]
, 2003 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 ...
Adams W +23 more
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The use of indigenous knowledge in development: problems and challenges [PDF]
, 2005 The use of indigenous knowledge has been seen by many as an alternative way of promoting development in poor rural communities in many parts of the world.
Allan, W. +36 more
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Valuation of native fruits and postcolonial thinking: a search for alternatives to development
Sustentabilidade em Debate, 2019 This research aims to identify the influence of two paradigms, namely colonial thinking and postcolonial thinking, on the valuation of native fruits, The sample was composed of six groups of farmers from the agroecology center Luta Camponesa Nucleus ...
Rodrigo Ozelame da Silva +3 more
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Epistemología de la comunicación en India: Una aproximación histórica más allá del “desarrollo” [PDF]
, 2016 This paper attempts to outline various recent contributions that can illustrate in developing an epistemological understanding of Communication in India, which is a country that could be considered as a continent due to its demography and territorial
Chaparro, Manuel +2 more
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Intervención internacional a través de los medios de comunicación en sociedades posguerra: Perspectivas a partir de las epistemologías del sur [PDF]
, 2016 Over the past two decades, international intervention in post-war settings has strictly followed liberal assumptions and practices. Efforts to build and shape the media in the aftermath of armed conflict are no exception.
Almeida Cravo, Teresa +2 more
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Biopower and an ecology of genes : seeing livestock as meat via genetics [PDF]
, 2015 This book chapter focuses on some of the implications of what has been represented as a radical change in livestock breeding for thinking about meat in relation to living farm animals: the use of genetic techniques in selecting breeding animals.
Holloway, Lewis
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THE STATE OF ECOLOGICAL KNOWLEDGE AS AN ELEMENT OF ECOLOGICAL AWARENESS [PDF]
Annals of the Polish Association of Agricultural and Agribusiness Economists, 2020 The aim of the article is to present the state of environmental knowledge of young people. Contemporary perception of environmental problems has been evaluated in recent decades. More and more often are the problems related to climate change and our role in activities to maintain the values of the natural environment directly visible.
SIEDLECKA, AGNIESZKA +3 more
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Effective engagement of conservation scientists with decision-makers [PDF]
, 2020 This chapter offers advice on how the conservation science community can effectively engage with decision-makers. The rationales for why we, as scientists, need to do this have been widely discussed in the literature.
Evans, Megan C. +2 more
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Conhecimento e sociedade: diálogos impertinentes Knowledge and society: impertinent dialogues
Sociologias, 2006 O objetivo deste texto é demarcar o sentido que tem assumido, no contexto do capitalismo, a relação entre sociedade e conhecimento científico. O desenvolvimento do capitalismo e da ciência moderna prosperaram a partir de uma relação de interdependência ...
Alexandre Silva Virginio
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Para além do Pensamento Abissal: Das linhas globais a uma ecologia de saberes
Revista Crítica de Ciências Sociais, 2007 The first part of this essay argues that the “abyssal” cartographies delimiting the Old World and the New World in the colonial era live on structurally in modern western thought and remain as constitutive elements in excluding political and cultural ...
Boaventura de Sousa Santos
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