Henrik Secher Marcussen
Biographic Data
| ID | 296950 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Henrik Secher Marcussen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Henrik Secher |
| FAMILY NAME | Marcussen |
| SIGNATURE | MARCUSSEN H S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Roskilde University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 44 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Development Research
Over the years, FDS has provided space for the important discussion on the scope, direction, relevance and, most recently, the fate of development research in Norway and beyond. Although Denmark shares a number of similarities with Norway, also a number of differences persist. For instance, Denmark has been subject to a process of fusion and mergers, which Norway so far seems to have avoided, both at university and departmental levels, where enti…
The Mythology of Aid
The rhetoric of aid is increasingly carried forward by catchwords and phrases that constitute a 'language of development'. This has an important role to play in justifying decision-making and when turning the aid discourse in yet another direction. Often, concepts with a relatively well-defined meaning in the social science literature are hijacked, turned and twisted by the aid community, in order opportunistically to serve the latest fashion. On…
The Aid and Academia Controversy
In a previous issue of FDS, the difficult interrelationship between aid and academia was analysed, in particular as seen in relation to results from recent evaluations carried out of both Danish and Norwegian development research. In these contributions the authors expressed as their main concern the extreme dependency of Nordic development research on funding from development agencies. In the present article, it is argued that the ambiguity iden…
Rejoinder to Gunnar M. Sørbø
John Degnbol-Martinussen Professor, International Development Studies, Roskilde University, Denmark 22 June 1947–23 September 2002
Sciences sociales et coopération en Afrique
Rural Settlement Structure and African Development
Background To The Study Of Settlement Introduction (Marilyn Silberfein.) The Geographic Study of Rural Settlements (David Grossman and David Siddle.) The Historical Perspective The Origins of African Rural Settlement (James L. Newman.) Cyclical Change in African Settlement and Modern Resettlement Programs (M. Silberfein.) The Evolution Of Settlement Types: Some Case Studies Settlement Concentration and Dispersal Among the Kofyar (Glenn Davis Ston…
NGOs, the state and civil society
This article examines the validity of some of the objectives of nongovernmental organisations (hereafter NGOs) that are based in the donor states and operate in the third world. The author has personal experience in the evaluation of several Scandinavian NGOs working in Africa and takes a somewhat sceptical position as to the capacity of such NGOs to ‘construct’ civil society in African states. Inevitably, such NGOs are part of a wider system of …
Contract farming and the peasantry
‘Contract Farming’, organised by the peripheral state and multinational agribusiness and financed by the World Bank and international lending institutions, is spreading swiftly in the Third World. Peasant household production is being transformed by this process. This transformation and its trajectory require appropriate theoretical analysis and close empirical examination. Such analysis is obscured rather than illuminated by those radical critic…
Changes in the International Division of Labour
The 1980s have witnessed new Third World developments, Including new patterns of industrialization in certain nations, primarily the so-called Newly Industrializing Countnes. This industrialization has led to an increased export to the western industrialized world of internationally competitive manufactured goods, while the very same industrialization has given rise to an increased demand from the western countries of manufactured goods, primaril…
NGOs, the state and civil society
This article examines the validity of some of the objectives of nongovernmental organisations (hereafter NGOs) that are based in the donor states and operate in the third world. The author has personal experience in the evaluation of several Scandinavian NGOs working in Africa and takes a somewhat sceptical position as to the capacity of such NGOs to ‘construct’ civil society in African states. Inevitably, such NGOs are part of a wider system of …
Contract farming and the peasantry
‘Contract Farming’, organised by the peripheral state and multinational agribusiness and financed by the World Bank and international lending institutions, is spreading swiftly in the Third World. Peasant household production is being transformed by this process. This transformation and its trajectory require appropriate theoretical analysis and close empirical examination. Such analysis is obscured rather than illuminated by those radical critic…
Changes in the International Division of Labour
The 1980s have witnessed new Third World developments, Including new patterns of industrialization in certain nations, primarily the so-called Newly Industrializing Countnes. This industrialization has led to an increased export to the western industrialized world of internationally competitive manufactured goods, while the very same industrialization has given rise to an increased demand from the western countries of manufactured goods, primaril…
Rural Settlement Structure and African Development
Background To The Study Of Settlement Introduction (Marilyn Silberfein.) The Geographic Study of Rural Settlements (David Grossman and David Siddle.) The Historical Perspective The Origins of African Rural Settlement (James L. Newman.) Cyclical Change in African Settlement and Modern Resettlement Programs (M. Silberfein.) The Evolution Of Settlement Types: Some Case Studies Settlement Concentration and Dispersal Among the Kofyar (Glenn Davis Ston…
The Mythology of Aid
The rhetoric of aid is increasingly carried forward by catchwords and phrases that constitute a 'language of development'. This has an important role to play in justifying decision-making and when turning the aid discourse in yet another direction. Often, concepts with a relatively well-defined meaning in the social science literature are hijacked, turned and twisted by the aid community, in order opportunistically to serve the latest fashion. On…
Contract farming and the peasantry
‘Contract Farming’, organised by the peripheral state and multinational agribusiness and financed by the World Bank and international lending institutions, is spreading swiftly in the Third World. Peasant household production is being transformed by this process. This transformation and its trajectory require appropriate theoretical analysis and close empirical examination. Such analysis is obscured rather than illuminated by those radical critic…
Changes in the International Division of Labour
The 1980s have witnessed new Third World developments, Including new patterns of industrialization in certain nations, primarily the so-called Newly Industrializing Countnes. This industrialization has led to an increased export to the western industrialized world of internationally competitive manufactured goods, while the very same industrialization has given rise to an increased demand from the western countries of manufactured goods, primaril…
NGOs, the state and civil society
This article examines the validity of some of the objectives of nongovernmental organisations (hereafter NGOs) that are based in the donor states and operate in the third world. The author has personal experience in the evaluation of several Scandinavian NGOs working in Africa and takes a somewhat sceptical position as to the capacity of such NGOs to ‘construct’ civil society in African states. Inevitably, such NGOs are part of a wider system of …
Rural Settlement Structure and African Development
Background To The Study Of Settlement Introduction (Marilyn Silberfein.) The Geographic Study of Rural Settlements (David Grossman and David Siddle.) The Historical Perspective The Origins of African Rural Settlement (James L. Newman.) Cyclical Change in African Settlement and Modern Resettlement Programs (M. Silberfein.) The Evolution Of Settlement Types: Some Case Studies Settlement Concentration and Dispersal Among the Kofyar (Glenn Davis Ston…
Sciences sociales et coopération en Afrique
The Aid and Academia Controversy
In a previous issue of FDS, the difficult interrelationship between aid and academia was analysed, in particular as seen in relation to results from recent evaluations carried out of both Danish and Norwegian development research. In these contributions the authors expressed as their main concern the extreme dependency of Nordic development research on funding from development agencies. In the present article, it is argued that the ambiguity iden…
Rejoinder to Gunnar M. Sørbø
John Degnbol-Martinussen Professor, International Development Studies, Roskilde University, Denmark 22 June 1947–23 September 2002
The Mythology of Aid
The rhetoric of aid is increasingly carried forward by catchwords and phrases that constitute a 'language of development'. This has an important role to play in justifying decision-making and when turning the aid discourse in yet another direction. Often, concepts with a relatively well-defined meaning in the social science literature are hijacked, turned and twisted by the aid community, in order opportunistically to serve the latest fashion. On…
Development Research
Over the years, FDS has provided space for the important discussion on the scope, direction, relevance and, most recently, the fate of development research in Norway and beyond. Although Denmark shares a number of similarities with Norway, also a number of differences persist. For instance, Denmark has been subject to a process of fusion and mergers, which Norway so far seems to have avoided, both at university and departmental levels, where enti…
Political science (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Economics (3 works) · Engineering (3 works) · Geography (3 works) · International Development and Aid (3 works) · Agriculture (2 works) · Business (2 works) · Capital (architecture (2 works)