Terje Tvedt
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 233835 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Terje Tvedt |
| PRENOMES | Terje |
| SOBRENOME | Tvedt |
| ASSINATURA | TVEDT T |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Bergen |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2349-4731 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 25 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 81 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 20 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 5 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1984 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2020 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Når forskning blir politikkens fortsettelse med andre midler
I forbindelse med den omfattende diskusjonen om Det internasjonale gjennombruddet pågår det også en kamp både om fortolkningen av nyere norsk historie og om hvordan historiefaget skal defineres og begrunnes
A history of water
"Major changes in policy and management, across the entire agricultural production chain, will be needed to ensure the best use of available water resources in meeting growing demands for food and other agricultural products. This new volume in the successful History of Water Series focuses on the African continent to address this key issue. Humanity has its roots in Africa and many of our food systems developed there. All types of agricultural p…
A History of Water: Series III, Volume 1
These three volumes present an original exploration of all aspects of water – social, cultural, political, religious, historical, economic and technological – from ancient times until the present day. Among the varied themes, the contributors examine the changing histories of water as a private or common good, the politics of water at local, urban, national and international level. With empirical and ethnographic case studies from around the worl…
An indigenous time-related framework for reconstructing the impact of disasters on ancient water systems in southern Ethiopia, 1560–1950
A History of Water
As the world's population continues to grow apace and an increasing number of countries aspire to a twenty-first century lifestyle so the question of access to water resources becomes ever more critical. This timely volume shows how the struggle to control water is an issue of growing geopolitical importance. Drawing on a wealth of examples, and revealing how current problems are not necessarily new as often suggested, the international contribut…
Hydrology and Empire
Why did the British march up the Nile in the 1890s? The answers to this crucial question of imperial historiography have direct relevance for narratives and theories about imperialism, in general, and the partition of Africa in the nineteenth century, in particular. They will also influence our understanding of some of the main issues in the modern history of the whole region, including state developments and resource utilisation. This article pr…
Human stewardship or ruining cultural landscapes of the ancientTulawells, southern Ethiopia
This article uses the concepts of 'human stewardship' and 'ruined landscape' as a theoretical framework for analysing the community's perception of landscape change in the ancienttulawell system of Borana in southern Ethiopia. The ancienttulawell system, the main permanent water source, has been in operation for more than five centuries and it closely links human activity and the environment. The welfare of thetulawell system and the performance …
A History of Water
How has water been perceived in different societies and across different eras of world history? How have these changing conceptions informed and influenced our ideas about society and ourselves? In "The Idea of Water" leading international scholars explore the rich record of our ideas, from the beliefs of early societies to the latest scientific views on the nature of this unique substance. Ranging across all aspects - scientific, cultural and re…
A History of the Ideas of Water
Why England and not China and India? Water systems and the history of the Industrial Revolution
Global history has centred for a long time on the comparative economic successes and failures of different parts of the world, most often European versus Asian regions. There is general agreement that the balance changed definitively in the latter part of the eighteenth century, when in continental Europe and England a transformation began that revolutionized the power relations of the world and brought an end to the dominance of agrarian civiliz…
Water Systems', Environmental History and the Deconstruction of Nature
Suggesting the concept of 'water systems', or more precisely, of 'open and multifunctional water systems' this article argues in favour of deconstructing the idea of nature as being a useful entity and term in environmental research. This deconstruction has nothing in common with the constructionists' discussion of 'natures'. Its starting point is that the practice of environmental history has shown that it is not possible to empirically examine …
The River Nile in the Post-Colonial Age
Nile Basin is a vast and varied area of 350 million people. Parts of the basin have become the very symbols of African misery, suffering drought, genocide, state failure and aid dependency. At its heart lies the Nile itself. Yet whilst the importance of the river is well documented for the colonial period there is no comprehensive account of its management after independence. The River Nile in the Post-Colonial Age details the modern development …
International Development Aid and Its Impact on a Donor Country
Understanding the History of the International Aid System and the Development Research Tradition
This article asks why religious NGOs have been almost completely neglected in decades of research on development and NGOs, in spite of the historical fact that they have been central actors in the international aid system since its very beginning. In order to answer this question, fundamental issues are raised regarding how to approach and understand the history of the international aid system and development research in general. Revisiting this …
The Nile
This unique bibliography provides a comprehensive survey of the literature relating to the many political, cultural, economic, and developmental aspects of the Nile. Numerous disciplines are covered, including geography, history, anthropology, and medicine; travel literature; planning and project literature produced by government bodies, international agencies and consultancy firms; and literature on basin-wide planning, water agreements, and wat…
The River Nile in the Age of the British
The Nile today plays a crucial role in the economics, politics and cultural life of ten countries and their more than 300 million inhabitants. No other international river basin has a longer, more complex and eventful history than the Nile. In telling the detailed story of the hydropolitics of the Nile valley in a period during which the conceptualization, use and planning of the waters were revolutionized, and many of the most famous politicians…
Development NGOs
The international aid system forms a powerful structural force impacting organizational landscapes and civil societies all over the world in complex ways we do not yet understand. Dominant NGO research has failed to properly address this crucial issue, because of a conceptual, theoretical, and ideological tradition that is itself embedded in this very same system’s normative, rhetorical agenda. This paper suggests some conceptual and theoretical …
Social Engineering and Self-reflexivity. Rejoinder to Arne Tostensen
Some Notes on Development Research and Ethics
Terje Tvedt, ‘Some Notes on Development Research and Ethics’, Forum for Development Studies, 1998:2, pp. 211–227. This article argues that it is often difficult to see the difference between what is called development research and politics and between research and other aid-related activities. Values traditionally held in high esteem among researchers are being eroded not only by the close relations between research and government and aid agencie…
The Cost of Dictatorship
Beyond the Hobbesian Nightmare
NGOs' Role at ‘the End of History’
Terje Tvedt, ‘NGOs' Role at “the End of History”: Norwegian Policy and the New Paradigm’, Forum for Development Studies, No. 1–2, 1994, pp. 139–166. The article discusses the ‘New Development Paradigm’ and its dichotomised conceptualisation of the relation between state and society. By discussing definitions of ‘civil society’ and different theories of state-society relations, it focuses on the role of development NGOs within this new paradigm. I…
The Race to Fashoda
Terje Tvedt, ‘The Race to Fashoda: Robinson and Gallagher Revisited’, Forum for Development Studies, No. 2, 1992, pp. 195–210. This article shows that the British in the 1890s had expansionist motives in the Upper Nile valley. The British strategists saw a need for increasing the amount of available Nile waters in Egypt for cotton production. A sound and efficient irrigation management, which could secure both stability at the Suez Canal, improve…
The Struggle for Water in the Middle East
This article discusses how regional population growth, a general increase in the standard of living over time, and the development of irrigated agriculture have created a gap between access to and the need for water, which might escalate the disputes over the scantiest resource of the Middle East: water. The problem is discussed in a historical perspective but also relates to the question of establishing international laws regarding the utilizati…
Shadows in the Grass
Development NGOs
The international aid system forms a powerful structural force impacting organizational landscapes and civil societies all over the world in complex ways we do not yet understand. Dominant NGO research has failed to properly address this crucial issue, because of a conceptual, theoretical, and ideological tradition that is itself embedded in this very same system’s normative, rhetorical agenda. This paper suggests some conceptual and theoretical …
Shadows in the Grass
Water Systems', Environmental History and the Deconstruction of Nature
Suggesting the concept of 'water systems', or more precisely, of 'open and multifunctional water systems' this article argues in favour of deconstructing the idea of nature as being a useful entity and term in environmental research. This deconstruction has nothing in common with the constructionists' discussion of 'natures'. Its starting point is that the practice of environmental history has shown that it is not possible to empirically examine …
Hydrology and Empire
Why did the British march up the Nile in the 1890s? The answers to this crucial question of imperial historiography have direct relevance for narratives and theories about imperialism, in general, and the partition of Africa in the nineteenth century, in particular. They will also influence our understanding of some of the main issues in the modern history of the whole region, including state developments and resource utilisation. This article pr…
International Development Aid and Its Impact on a Donor Country
An indigenous time-related framework for reconstructing the impact of disasters on ancient water systems in southern Ethiopia, 1560–1950
Human stewardship or ruining cultural landscapes of the ancientTulawells, southern Ethiopia
This article uses the concepts of 'human stewardship' and 'ruined landscape' as a theoretical framework for analysing the community's perception of landscape change in the ancienttulawell system of Borana in southern Ethiopia. The ancienttulawell system, the main permanent water source, has been in operation for more than five centuries and it closely links human activity and the environment. The welfare of thetulawell system and the performance …
Why England and not China and India? Water systems and the history of the Industrial Revolution
Global history has centred for a long time on the comparative economic successes and failures of different parts of the world, most often European versus Asian regions. There is general agreement that the balance changed definitively in the latter part of the eighteenth century, when in continental Europe and England a transformation began that revolutionized the power relations of the world and brought an end to the dominance of agrarian civiliz…
NGOs' Role at ‘the End of History’
Terje Tvedt, ‘NGOs' Role at “the End of History”: Norwegian Policy and the New Paradigm’, Forum for Development Studies, No. 1–2, 1994, pp. 139–166. The article discusses the ‘New Development Paradigm’ and its dichotomised conceptualisation of the relation between state and society. By discussing definitions of ‘civil society’ and different theories of state-society relations, it focuses on the role of development NGOs within this new paradigm. I…
Understanding the History of the International Aid System and the Development Research Tradition
This article asks why religious NGOs have been almost completely neglected in decades of research on development and NGOs, in spite of the historical fact that they have been central actors in the international aid system since its very beginning. In order to answer this question, fundamental issues are raised regarding how to approach and understand the history of the international aid system and development research in general. Revisiting this …
Shadows in the Grass
The Race to Fashoda
Terje Tvedt, ‘The Race to Fashoda: Robinson and Gallagher Revisited’, Forum for Development Studies, No. 2, 1992, pp. 195–210. This article shows that the British in the 1890s had expansionist motives in the Upper Nile valley. The British strategists saw a need for increasing the amount of available Nile waters in Egypt for cotton production. A sound and efficient irrigation management, which could secure both stability at the Suez Canal, improve…
The Struggle for Water in the Middle East
This article discusses how regional population growth, a general increase in the standard of living over time, and the development of irrigated agriculture have created a gap between access to and the need for water, which might escalate the disputes over the scantiest resource of the Middle East: water. The problem is discussed in a historical perspective but also relates to the question of establishing international laws regarding the utilizati…
NGOs' Role at ‘the End of History’
Terje Tvedt, ‘NGOs' Role at “the End of History”: Norwegian Policy and the New Paradigm’, Forum for Development Studies, No. 1–2, 1994, pp. 139–166. The article discusses the ‘New Development Paradigm’ and its dichotomised conceptualisation of the relation between state and society. By discussing definitions of ‘civil society’ and different theories of state-society relations, it focuses on the role of development NGOs within this new paradigm. I…
Beyond the Hobbesian Nightmare
The Cost of Dictatorship
Some Notes on Development Research and Ethics
Terje Tvedt, ‘Some Notes on Development Research and Ethics’, Forum for Development Studies, 1998:2, pp. 211–227. This article argues that it is often difficult to see the difference between what is called development research and politics and between research and other aid-related activities. Values traditionally held in high esteem among researchers are being eroded not only by the close relations between research and government and aid agencie…
Social Engineering and Self-reflexivity. Rejoinder to Arne Tostensen
Development NGOs
The international aid system forms a powerful structural force impacting organizational landscapes and civil societies all over the world in complex ways we do not yet understand. Dominant NGO research has failed to properly address this crucial issue, because of a conceptual, theoretical, and ideological tradition that is itself embedded in this very same system’s normative, rhetorical agenda. This paper suggests some conceptual and theoretical …
The Nile
This unique bibliography provides a comprehensive survey of the literature relating to the many political, cultural, economic, and developmental aspects of the Nile. Numerous disciplines are covered, including geography, history, anthropology, and medicine; travel literature; planning and project literature produced by government bodies, international agencies and consultancy firms; and literature on basin-wide planning, water agreements, and wat…
The River Nile in the Age of the British
The Nile today plays a crucial role in the economics, politics and cultural life of ten countries and their more than 300 million inhabitants. No other international river basin has a longer, more complex and eventful history than the Nile. In telling the detailed story of the hydropolitics of the Nile valley in a period during which the conceptualization, use and planning of the waters were revolutionized, and many of the most famous politicians…
Understanding the History of the International Aid System and the Development Research Tradition
This article asks why religious NGOs have been almost completely neglected in decades of research on development and NGOs, in spite of the historical fact that they have been central actors in the international aid system since its very beginning. In order to answer this question, fundamental issues are raised regarding how to approach and understand the history of the international aid system and development research in general. Revisiting this …
International Development Aid and Its Impact on a Donor Country
The River Nile in the Post-Colonial Age
Nile Basin is a vast and varied area of 350 million people. Parts of the basin have become the very symbols of African misery, suffering drought, genocide, state failure and aid dependency. At its heart lies the Nile itself. Yet whilst the importance of the river is well documented for the colonial period there is no comprehensive account of its management after independence. The River Nile in the Post-Colonial Age details the modern development …
A History of Water
How has water been perceived in different societies and across different eras of world history? How have these changing conceptions informed and influenced our ideas about society and ourselves? In "The Idea of Water" leading international scholars explore the rich record of our ideas, from the beliefs of early societies to the latest scientific views on the nature of this unique substance. Ranging across all aspects - scientific, cultural and re…
A History of the Ideas of Water
Why England and not China and India? Water systems and the history of the Industrial Revolution
Global history has centred for a long time on the comparative economic successes and failures of different parts of the world, most often European versus Asian regions. There is general agreement that the balance changed definitively in the latter part of the eighteenth century, when in continental Europe and England a transformation began that revolutionized the power relations of the world and brought an end to the dominance of agrarian civiliz…
Water Systems', Environmental History and the Deconstruction of Nature
Suggesting the concept of 'water systems', or more precisely, of 'open and multifunctional water systems' this article argues in favour of deconstructing the idea of nature as being a useful entity and term in environmental research. This deconstruction has nothing in common with the constructionists' discussion of 'natures'. Its starting point is that the practice of environmental history has shown that it is not possible to empirically examine …
A History of Water
As the world's population continues to grow apace and an increasing number of countries aspire to a twenty-first century lifestyle so the question of access to water resources becomes ever more critical. This timely volume shows how the struggle to control water is an issue of growing geopolitical importance. Drawing on a wealth of examples, and revealing how current problems are not necessarily new as often suggested, the international contribut…
Hydrology and Empire
Why did the British march up the Nile in the 1890s? The answers to this crucial question of imperial historiography have direct relevance for narratives and theories about imperialism, in general, and the partition of Africa in the nineteenth century, in particular. They will also influence our understanding of some of the main issues in the modern history of the whole region, including state developments and resource utilisation. This article pr…
Human stewardship or ruining cultural landscapes of the ancientTulawells, southern Ethiopia
This article uses the concepts of 'human stewardship' and 'ruined landscape' as a theoretical framework for analysing the community's perception of landscape change in the ancienttulawell system of Borana in southern Ethiopia. The ancienttulawell system, the main permanent water source, has been in operation for more than five centuries and it closely links human activity and the environment. The welfare of thetulawell system and the performance …
An indigenous time-related framework for reconstructing the impact of disasters on ancient water systems in southern Ethiopia, 1560–1950
A History of Water: Series III, Volume 1
These three volumes present an original exploration of all aspects of water – social, cultural, political, religious, historical, economic and technological – from ancient times until the present day. Among the varied themes, the contributors examine the changing histories of water as a private or common good, the politics of water at local, urban, national and international level. With empirical and ethnographic case studies from around the worl…
A history of water
"Major changes in policy and management, across the entire agricultural production chain, will be needed to ensure the best use of available water resources in meeting growing demands for food and other agricultural products. This new volume in the successful History of Water Series focuses on the African continent to address this key issue. Humanity has its roots in Africa and many of our food systems developed there. All types of agricultural p…
Når forskning blir politikkens fortsettelse med andre midler
I forbindelse med den omfattende diskusjonen om Det internasjonale gjennombruddet pågår det også en kamp både om fortolkningen av nyere norsk historie og om hvordan historiefaget skal defineres og begrunnes
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