Janet G Townsend

Biographic Data

ID3696938
NAMEJanet G Townsend
GIVEN NAMESJanet G
FAMILY NAMETownsend
SIGNATURETOWNSEND J G
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS8
TOTAL CITATIONS101
AUTHOR COUNT8
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1977
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2005
H-INDEX5

  • Trust, accountability, and face-to-face interaction in North-South NGO relations

    Emma Mawdsley, Janet Townsend et al.ARTICLEDevelopment in Practice2005Cited by: 23References: 1

    Janet Townsend is a Research Fellow in Geography at the University of Durham. Her interest in NGOs came from women pioneer settlers in Latin American rainforests, when Mexican respondents proved to see NGOs as the best prospective outside help. Emma Mawdsley lectures at Birkbeck College, University of London. In addition to her NGO research, she is working on the environmental beliefs and behaviours of India's middle classes. Gina Porter is worki…

  • Creating Spaces of Resistance

    Open AccessJanet Townsend, Janet G Townsend et al.ARTICLEAntipode2004Cited by: 45References: 3

    Development NGOs have been accused by some of being new instruments of control, domesticated by the neoliberal project. For others, they elaborate and pursue alternative dreams. In this paper, we argue that, although the majority of NGOs have been co-opted to serve hegemonic development agendas, they nevertheless present a fluid, contradictory web of relations, within which a significant minority seeks to make spaces of resistance, and where even…

  • The role of the transnational community of non‐government organizations

    Open AccessJanet Townsend, Janet G Townsend et al.ARTICLEJournal of International…2002

    Non‐government organizations working in development form a transnational community which has a new role in imperialism today. We explored the knowledge economy of this community with NGDOs in Ghana, India, Mexico and Europe and found it to be largely donor‐controlled and generally top‐down, often against the will of committed individual actors. Governability is arguably a greater priority to donors than the most effective poverty reduction. The n…

  • Hidden Workers, Hidden Women, Hidden Geographies

    Open AccessJanet Townsend, Janet G TownsendARTICLEAntipode2002

  • GIS for development

    Open AccessChristine Dunn, Christine E Dunn et al.ARTICLEArea1997Cited by: 9References: 15

    Is it possible to make appropriate use of GIS for ‘development’ (here defined as change desirable for the poor) in countries where human and financial resources may be limited? We argue that it is, and should be taught, but that there are no quick fixes

  • Feminists in the rainforest in Mexico

    Open AccessJanet Townsend, Janet G Townsend et al.ARTICLEGeoforum1993Cited by: 1References: 1

  • Towards a Regional Geography of Gender

    Janet Townsend, Janet G TownsendARTICLEGeographical Journal1991Cited by: 13

  • Perceived Worlds of the Colonists of Tropical Rainforest, Colombia

    Janet Townsend, Janet G TownsendARTICLETransactions of the Institute of…1977Cited by: 10

    Field research in Colombia in 1974 employed repertory-grid interview techniques in the investigation of the perceived worlds of colonists in five areas of tropical rainforest. The application of repertory grids in cross-cultural situations appears to be new and the methodology is briefly described. The results illuminate many aspects of the colonists' decisionmaking environment through the varying relations of standard constructs and elements, po…