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Knowledge in Sustainable Rural Development

From Forms of Knowledge to Knowledge Processes

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ID5003293
AuthorsKarl Bruckmeier (University of Gothenburg, corresponding author), Hilary Tovey (corresponding author)
Year2008
Volume48
Issue3
Pages313-329
Publication date2008-07-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueSociologia Ruralis (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0038-0199 • E-ISSN: 1467-9523
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1467-9523.2008.00466.x
OpenAlexW2148094771
LanguageEN
Citations received46
References cited31

Lack of data or empirical information, insecurity about scientific knowledge, and disputes on how to manage knowledge emerge as central concerns when we study changes in rural development under the influence of sustainability discourses. In this synthesis we summarise and interpret results from the CORASON project for sustainable resource management, both within policy discourses and the local realities of rural development projects. We identify a range of operational variants for sustainable development in these projects. The understanding of sustainable development found in rural development practice is more diverse and pluralistic and less standardised than in the policy programmes that guide it, and practitioners are also critical of some premises of these programmes. From the knowledge forms and ideas entering rural development practices emerges a model of sustainable rural development that is less hierarchical and hegemonic than those in policy programmes and comes more from the target groups, beneficiaries and local populations than the actors in the policy process and scientific discourses. It requires more in-depth study of knowledge interaction in resource management. To describe the emerging ideas of knowledge practices we use the concepts of situated and relational knowledge, formulated in recent epistemological studies but not yet systematically introduced in the analysis of rural development processes

Hegemony · Knowledge management · Political science · Resource (disambiguation) · Situated · Social science · Sociology · Sociology of scientific knowledge · Sustainability · Sustainable development · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development · Computer Science · Rural development and sustainability · Tourism, Volunteerism, and Development

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Unique citing works46
Citations per year2,56
Citation span2008 - 2026 (19)
Citation velocitycurrent
Highly citedNo
Citation typesNeutral: 45

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