International volunteering occupies a popular place in contemporary UK public imaginations. It is supported by range of stakeholders, including the state, corporate sector and non‐government organisations (NGOs), which increasingly share narrative emphasising international volunteering’s capacity to develop volunteers whose impacts on global equity or their professional identities emerge return as much during stay overseas. This paper explores discourses practices citizenship,...

List of Maps and Tables vii Acknowledgments ix Introduction: Indigenous Development in the Andes 1 1. Development, Transnational Networks, Politics 23 2. Development-with-Identity: Social Capital Andean Culture 53 3. Place: Ethnic Local 80 4. Neoliberalisms, Water Politics, People 125 5. Professionalization Actors Knowledge 157 6. Gender, Transnationalism, Cultures 195 Conclusion: Theory Practice 223 Appendix 1: Methodology Research Design 247 2: Development-Agency Initiatives for Peoples,...

Because the economy is not found as an empirical object among other worldly things, in order for it to be ‘seen’ by human perceptual apparatus has undergo a process, crucial science, of representational mapping. This doubling, but with difference; map shifts point view so that viewers can see whole if from outside, way allows them, specific position inside, find their bearings. ( Buck‐Morss 1995 , 440)

Indigenous social movements have become important development actors in recent years. As the targets of "socially inclusive" neoliberal policies and protagonists global anti-capitalist movements, position these mainstream is often ambivalent. This ambivalence reflects contradictions between economic neoliberalism goals as well different understandings practices development-with-identity. We explore relationship institutionalisation ethnodevelopment creation indigenous experts through...

This article critically examines the geography of volunteering in relation to international development. We identify investments involved sustaining North–South imaginaries that have come dominate scholarship this field and explore new ways unsettling geography. draw together empirical material from five different research projects, conducted with distinct thematic geographical foci over a six‐year timeframe. do so order show how existing geographies development produced fixed understandings...

In this paper we develop a critical analysis of the new paradigm culture and development, in which is taken seriously as factor development thinking policy. Our aims to understand how where concepts have come into planning. Viewing cultures multiple set culturally embedded practices meanings, our approach raises issues about paradigms adopted explicit and/or carried within them implicit cultural norms. postcolonial poststructuralist account sensitive historically geographically variable...

Abstract Despite important work in development studies on the ‘male bias process’, it is generally recognized that gender and analyses have been slow to engage with masculinities. Focusing attention nexus between identity globalizing discourses, this article explores relationship masculinities through an analysis of gendering water paradigms. By analysing example recent Cochabamba wars Bolivia, placing them historical context, author how gendered representations language are used downplay...

Sexual trafficking is a priority issue for many governments and has increasingly become focus debate within the academy. Despite this, aspects of sexual remain poorly understood. In this article we on an area that received scant attention in literature: situation trafficked women when they return home and, specifically, livelihood opportunities available to them as experience differing notions citizenship. addition fact there been very little attempt document poverty alleviation strategies...

While research to date on volunteering and development has largely focused attention the global South as a place that “hosts” volunteers North “sends”, in this article we focus movements of between countries South. Our objective is thus consider “South–South” flows order provide counter dominant North–South imaginaries international volunteering. However, do not declare or celebrate South–South “new”, rather our approach critically engages with framing geography offering benefits similar...

Schulz, C., M. Martín Brañas, C. Núñez Pérez, Del Aguila Villacorta, N. Laurie, I. T. Lawson, and K. H. Roucoux. 2019. Peatland wetland ecosystems in Peruvian Amazonia: indigenous classifications perspectives. Ecology Society 24(2):12. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-10886-240212

In this paper we examine state and indigenous education in Bolivia. Focusing on debates about the hidden curriculum, conceptualize school as a political space where tensions between overlapping jurisdictional powers of hispanicizing authorities are played out. Our analysis these highlights contested way which educational policy is negotiated Bolivia points to importance deep structures curriculum constructing territorial authority site struggle communities. Using communities Raqaypampa,...

This article explores how transnational networking around neoliberal water policies intersects with drives to mainstream gender. It examines understandings of gender are constructed through conflicts and demonstrates complex contemporary gendered experiences reflected in a variety networks operating at across different scales. challenges essentialist accounts within policy debates, demonstrating subjectivities produced, reproduced disrupted hybrid struggle. shows these enter the global arena...