Volume 45. Issue 2 - 3
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Foreword
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Weighing Up the Risks: The Challenge of Studying ‘Risk’ in Empirical Research
(© 2014 Institute of Development Studies, March 2014)Studying multifaceted risks that are simultaneously and differently perceived and experienced presents significant challenges, but gaining insight into multiple realities and rationalities is crucial for achieving effective ... -
Introduction: New Perspectives from PhD Field Research
(© 2014 Institute of Development Studies, March 2014)In this introduction, we discuss some of the common issues and experiences expressed in the seven articles of this IDS Bulletin . This issue is a platform for IDS PhD researchers to reflect on their fieldwork experiences, ... -
Performing Peace?building – Conferences, Rituals and the Role of Ethnographic Research
(© 2014 Institute of Development Studies, March 2014)This article explores performance and ritual theory in the context of anthropological research on peace?building institutions and knowledge discourses, as well as the process of writing up an ethnographic PhD thesis. Based ... -
The Power of Wellbeing Discourses among Indigenous and Non?Indigenous People in Mexico
(© 2014 Institute of Development Studies, March 2014)This article focuses on local perceptions of wellbeing, their underlying social and power relations and the resulting cultural resistance by Rarámuri indigenous people in the Tarahumara region, Mexico. It is based on ... -
The Necessity of Engaging with Politics: Lessons from the Grass Roots in South India
(© 2014 Institute of Development Studies, March 2014)This article highlights the growing role, relevance and practice of politics in the everyday lives of poor people and grass roots NGOs, in relation to rural local government. It draws on experiences from a case study gram ... -
Why Participation Matters: Communal Drinking Water Management in Bolivia and Ecuador
(© 2014 Institute of Development Studies, March 2014)In the past 30 years, Drinking Water Users' Associations (DWUAs) have emerged in peri?urban and rural areas in Bolivia and Ecuador where public utilities do not operate. While recognising the challenges to service provision ... -
State-Dominated Civil Society and Migrant Children's Education in Beijing
(© 2014 Institute of Development Studies, March 2014)In China, the ‘tidal wave’ of rural migrant workers has created unique challenges for the government, one being migrant children's education in cities. Despite central policies emphasising the roles of receiving governments ... -
The Disjuncture between Gendered Legislation and the Practice of Urban Planning: A Case Study of the Swaziland Urban Development Project
(© 2014 Institute of Development Studies, March 2014)This study examines the disjuncture between gender?neutral legislation, state policies in particular, and the implementation of the Swaziland Urban Development Project (SUDP), an integrated development project co?funded ... -
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