Axel Borchgrevink
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 136906 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Axel Borchgrevink |
| NOMBRES | Axel |
| APELLIDO | Borchgrevink |
| FIRMA | BORCHGREVINK A |
| AFILIACIONES | Norwegian Institute of International Affairs |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1767-1540 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 20 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 71 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 19 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2001 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Riverine rights
Cuando la ley se queda corta
Laws that recognise rivers and their ecosystems as legal persons or subjects with their own rights, duties and obligations have been associated with theories of environmental constitutionalism. However, the extent to, and manner in which, constitutional law (with its elevated status) has been instrumental in the conferral of these ‘riverine rights’ is still not well-understood. In this article, we consider the constitutional relevance of the reco…
Beyond legal personhood for the Whanganui River
There is now a large body of scholarly literature on the legal and governance arrangements for the Whanganui River in Aotearoa New Zealand, given the rights of a legal person under Te Awa Tupua (Whanganui River Claims Settlement) Act 2017. Most of this literature focuses on the innovation of legal personhood and rights of nature rather than situating the Act in its local context or examining its implementation in practice. This article analyzes t…
Where ordinary laws fall short
Laws that recognise rivers and their ecosystems as legal persons or subjects with their own rights, duties and obligations have been associated with theories of environmental constitutionalism. However, the extent to, and manner in which, constitutional law (with its elevated status) has been instrumental in the conferral of these ‘riverine rights’ is still not well-understood. In this article, we consider the constitutional relevance of the reco…
Household Histories and Methodological Triangulation
The article uses the experience from the impact evaluation of a development programme to argue two points: first, the collection of household histories is a useful methodological tool, and, second, their analytical value is further enhanced by combining them with quantitative data. After giving examples of household histories, we first discuss what we call the ‘practical–methodological aspects’ of this approach, by presenting theories and perspec…
Contested Powers
Contested Powers argues that the fixes being offered by this model are bluffs; development as witnessed in Latin American energy politics and governance remains hindered by a global division of labour and nature that puts the capacity for technological advancement in private hands. The authors call for a multi-layered understanding of sovereignty, arguing that it holds the key to undermining rigid accounts of the relationship between carbon and d…
Aiding Rights? – Dilemmas in Norwegian and Swedish Development Cooperation with Ethiopia
Limits to Donor Influence
This article examines the relations between Ethiopia and its donors since 1990, with a focus on how donors have attempted to influence Ethiopian policies. Four different periods are delimited: the early EPRDF years (1990–1998); the war with Eritrea (1998–2000); the post-war years (2000–2005); and after the 2005 elections (2005–2007). While donors have applied very different policies towards Ethiopia over this period, it seems that none of them ha…
Re-reconsidering Foreign Aid
(2007). Re-reconsidering Foreign Aid: Riddell's ‘Does Foreign Aid Really Work?’. Forum for Development Studies: Vol. 34, No. 1, pp. 189-196
Cutting Aid to Promote Peace and Democracy? Intentions and Effectiveness of Aid Sanctions
Images of Norwegian Aid
This review article looks at three studies published last year, which all attempt to give an overview of Norwegian development assistance. But in spite of the common theme, these are very different works. The History of Norwegian Development Assistance (Simensen et al.) is impressive in its empirical scope, but lacking perhaps in unity. The Power of the Gift (Nustad) is thinner empirically, but interesting in its unusual theoretical perspectives …
Afrikas horn
A History of Anthropology
State and Society in Ethiopia
The history of Ethiopia makes it an interesting case for comparative purposes. Three recent edited books that all present perspectives on the Ethiopian state as seen from local perspectives provide interesting material for reflections on state-society relations and democratisation in Africa. By focusing on electoral processes, on centre—periphery relations, and on democratisation understood in a wide sense, respectively, the three books complemen…
Ideas of Power in the Philippines
This article examines beliefs about men of supernatural power on the Philippine island of Bohol. As has been pointed out, these beliefs are quite parallel to what Benedict Anderson has described for Java, especially with regard to the requirements of ascetic practices for accumulating and retaining the supernatural powers. Particular for the Philippine case, however, is the way that this asceticism is understood through a notion of 'sacrifice', e…
Silencing Language
While the use of interpreters in fieldwork is far from marginal in anthropological practice, it has received curiously little attention in anthropological texts. On the basis of a review of what little has been written, and in consideration of some of the particularities of working with interpreters, the article argues that overlooking this theme has had two unfortunate consequences: concrete steps that can reduce the problems associated with int…
Indigenous Peoples and Development Programmes
Development assistance for indigenous peoples poses particular dilemmas. A recent book focuses on the forms these take in a development programme directed at the San people of Botswana. The author, Sidsel Saugestad, argues that the failure to identify the target group in terms of ethnicity means that the underlying causes of their marginalisation cannot be addressed. The analysis weaves together discussions of what indigenousness should mean in a…
Clean and Green
This article demonstrates how the study of indigenous knowledge can be enhanced by paying attention to the forms in which this knowledge is organized and the way it is embedded in a wider cultural matrix. The empirical setting is a community of small-scale farmers on the Philippine island of Bohol, where much agricultural knowledge is organized in a cultural model built around a concept of cleanliness. The main part of the article is concerned wi…
Agrarian Questions and Enduring Peasants
Aid and the Poor
In recent years, there has been a renewed focus on poverty reduction as the goal of development cooperation. Two recent books investigate the effect this new focus has had on the work of European development agencies. Their findings agree in terms of pointing out that there is a need for clearer guidelines, and that poverty-oriented interventions have been relatively less successful in improving income levels than in improving services. However, …
Silencing Language
While the use of interpreters in fieldwork is far from marginal in anthropological practice, it has received curiously little attention in anthropological texts. On the basis of a review of what little has been written, and in consideration of some of the particularities of working with interpreters, the article argues that overlooking this theme has had two unfortunate consequences: concrete steps that can reduce the problems associated with int…
Limits to Donor Influence
This article examines the relations between Ethiopia and its donors since 1990, with a focus on how donors have attempted to influence Ethiopian policies. Four different periods are delimited: the early EPRDF years (1990–1998); the war with Eritrea (1998–2000); the post-war years (2000–2005); and after the 2005 elections (2005–2007). While donors have applied very different policies towards Ethiopia over this period, it seems that none of them ha…
Clean and Green
This article demonstrates how the study of indigenous knowledge can be enhanced by paying attention to the forms in which this knowledge is organized and the way it is embedded in a wider cultural matrix. The empirical setting is a community of small-scale farmers on the Philippine island of Bohol, where much agricultural knowledge is organized in a cultural model built around a concept of cleanliness. The main part of the article is concerned wi…
Beyond legal personhood for the Whanganui River
There is now a large body of scholarly literature on the legal and governance arrangements for the Whanganui River in Aotearoa New Zealand, given the rights of a legal person under Te Awa Tupua (Whanganui River Claims Settlement) Act 2017. Most of this literature focuses on the innovation of legal personhood and rights of nature rather than situating the Act in its local context or examining its implementation in practice. This article analyzes t…
Ideas of Power in the Philippines
This article examines beliefs about men of supernatural power on the Philippine island of Bohol. As has been pointed out, these beliefs are quite parallel to what Benedict Anderson has described for Java, especially with regard to the requirements of ascetic practices for accumulating and retaining the supernatural powers. Particular for the Philippine case, however, is the way that this asceticism is understood through a notion of 'sacrifice', e…
Agrarian Questions and Enduring Peasants
Cutting Aid to Promote Peace and Democracy? Intentions and Effectiveness of Aid Sanctions
Agrarian Questions and Enduring Peasants
Aid and the Poor
In recent years, there has been a renewed focus on poverty reduction as the goal of development cooperation. Two recent books investigate the effect this new focus has had on the work of European development agencies. Their findings agree in terms of pointing out that there is a need for clearer guidelines, and that poverty-oriented interventions have been relatively less successful in improving income levels than in improving services. However, …
Indigenous Peoples and Development Programmes
Development assistance for indigenous peoples poses particular dilemmas. A recent book focuses on the forms these take in a development programme directed at the San people of Botswana. The author, Sidsel Saugestad, argues that the failure to identify the target group in terms of ethnicity means that the underlying causes of their marginalisation cannot be addressed. The analysis weaves together discussions of what indigenousness should mean in a…
Clean and Green
This article demonstrates how the study of indigenous knowledge can be enhanced by paying attention to the forms in which this knowledge is organized and the way it is embedded in a wider cultural matrix. The empirical setting is a community of small-scale farmers on the Philippine island of Bohol, where much agricultural knowledge is organized in a cultural model built around a concept of cleanliness. The main part of the article is concerned wi…
A History of Anthropology
State and Society in Ethiopia
The history of Ethiopia makes it an interesting case for comparative purposes. Three recent edited books that all present perspectives on the Ethiopian state as seen from local perspectives provide interesting material for reflections on state-society relations and democratisation in Africa. By focusing on electoral processes, on centre—periphery relations, and on democratisation understood in a wide sense, respectively, the three books complemen…
Ideas of Power in the Philippines
This article examines beliefs about men of supernatural power on the Philippine island of Bohol. As has been pointed out, these beliefs are quite parallel to what Benedict Anderson has described for Java, especially with regard to the requirements of ascetic practices for accumulating and retaining the supernatural powers. Particular for the Philippine case, however, is the way that this asceticism is understood through a notion of 'sacrifice', e…
Silencing Language
While the use of interpreters in fieldwork is far from marginal in anthropological practice, it has received curiously little attention in anthropological texts. On the basis of a review of what little has been written, and in consideration of some of the particularities of working with interpreters, the article argues that overlooking this theme has had two unfortunate consequences: concrete steps that can reduce the problems associated with int…
Images of Norwegian Aid
This review article looks at three studies published last year, which all attempt to give an overview of Norwegian development assistance. But in spite of the common theme, these are very different works. The History of Norwegian Development Assistance (Simensen et al.) is impressive in its empirical scope, but lacking perhaps in unity. The Power of the Gift (Nustad) is thinner empirically, but interesting in its unusual theoretical perspectives …
Afrikas horn
Cutting Aid to Promote Peace and Democracy? Intentions and Effectiveness of Aid Sanctions
Re-reconsidering Foreign Aid
(2007). Re-reconsidering Foreign Aid: Riddell's ‘Does Foreign Aid Really Work?’. Forum for Development Studies: Vol. 34, No. 1, pp. 189-196
Limits to Donor Influence
This article examines the relations between Ethiopia and its donors since 1990, with a focus on how donors have attempted to influence Ethiopian policies. Four different periods are delimited: the early EPRDF years (1990–1998); the war with Eritrea (1998–2000); the post-war years (2000–2005); and after the 2005 elections (2005–2007). While donors have applied very different policies towards Ethiopia over this period, it seems that none of them ha…
Aiding Rights? – Dilemmas in Norwegian and Swedish Development Cooperation with Ethiopia
Contested Powers
Contested Powers argues that the fixes being offered by this model are bluffs; development as witnessed in Latin American energy politics and governance remains hindered by a global division of labour and nature that puts the capacity for technological advancement in private hands. The authors call for a multi-layered understanding of sovereignty, arguing that it holds the key to undermining rigid accounts of the relationship between carbon and d…
Household Histories and Methodological Triangulation
The article uses the experience from the impact evaluation of a development programme to argue two points: first, the collection of household histories is a useful methodological tool, and, second, their analytical value is further enhanced by combining them with quantitative data. After giving examples of household histories, we first discuss what we call the ‘practical–methodological aspects’ of this approach, by presenting theories and perspec…
Where ordinary laws fall short
Laws that recognise rivers and their ecosystems as legal persons or subjects with their own rights, duties and obligations have been associated with theories of environmental constitutionalism. However, the extent to, and manner in which, constitutional law (with its elevated status) has been instrumental in the conferral of these ‘riverine rights’ is still not well-understood. In this article, we consider the constitutional relevance of the reco…
Cuando la ley se queda corta
Laws that recognise rivers and their ecosystems as legal persons or subjects with their own rights, duties and obligations have been associated with theories of environmental constitutionalism. However, the extent to, and manner in which, constitutional law (with its elevated status) has been instrumental in the conferral of these ‘riverine rights’ is still not well-understood. In this article, we consider the constitutional relevance of the reco…
Beyond legal personhood for the Whanganui River
There is now a large body of scholarly literature on the legal and governance arrangements for the Whanganui River in Aotearoa New Zealand, given the rights of a legal person under Te Awa Tupua (Whanganui River Claims Settlement) Act 2017. Most of this literature focuses on the innovation of legal personhood and rights of nature rather than situating the Act in its local context or examining its implementation in practice. This article analyzes t…
Riverine rights
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