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dc.contributor.authorCline-Cole, Reginald*
dc.contributor.editorEade, Deborahen
dc.date.accessioned2011-05-24T09:57:54Zen
dc.date.available2011-05-24T09:57:54Zen
dc.date.issued2006-11-01en
dc.identifier.issn0961-4524en
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/09614520600958140en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10546/130806en
dc.descriptionUsing autobiographical experience with reference to wood-fuel research in two locations in West Africa, this article illustrates how knowledge processes influence what can be produced as knowledge; how such knowledge is actually produced; and what is eventually produced as knowledge. However, although it explores the various roles that knowledge plays in the social relations at particular historical moments in the personal and professional development of a single individual, the questions that this subjective experience raises are of wider import: whose knowledge matters? How do certain knowledge's get suppressed or denied, while others are privileged? In turn, this raises additional questions concerning the ways in which research and practice are mediated through local research, policy, and development prisms. In a general sense, the article is about the way in which wood-fuel philosophies, methodologies, and practices are constructed, modified, and maintained in existence as knowledge; and a reminder that such knowledge processes cannot truly be understood in isolation, but need to be situated within complex, diversified contexts of individual agendas, and group strategies, as well as in multiple sites of production.<p>This article is hosted by our co-publisher Taylor & Francis.</p>en
dc.format.extent14en
dc.format.mimetypePDFen
dc.language.isoEnglishen
dc.publisherOxfam GBen
dc.publisherRoutledgeen
dc.relation.urlhttp://policy-practice.oxfam.org.uk/publications/blazing-a-trail-while-lazing-around-knowledge-processes-and-wood-fuel-paradoxes-130806
dc.subjectApproach and methodology
dc.subjectEducation
dc.titleBlazing a trail while lazing around: knowledge processes and wood-fuel paradoxes?en
dc.typeJournal articleen
dc.identifier.eissn1364-9213en
dc.identifier.journalDevelopment in Practiceen
oxfam.signoff.statusFor public use – can be shared outside Oxfamen
oxfam.subject.keywordDevelopment methods
oxfam.subject.keywordDevelopment in Practice Journal
oxfam.subject.keywordDiP
prism.number6en
prism.volume16en
dc.year.issuedate2006en


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