Towards Shared Research: Participatory and Integrative Approaches in Researching African Environments

Open Access Published by transcript Verlag 2020

Towards Shared Research

Participatory and Integrative Approaches in Researching African Environments

Edited by: Tobias Haller and Claudia Zingerli
Funded by: Schweizerische Akademie der Naturwissenschaften , Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Afrikastudien , Schweizerische Akademische Gesellschaft für Umweltforschung und Ökologie and Schweizerische Akademie der Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften

In the series Kultur und soziale Praxis

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839451502

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About this book

Intercultural, interdisciplinary, and transdisciplinary research interfaces confront researchers with considerable challenges. »Towards Shared Research« portrays how scholars from different disciplinary and geographical origins and at various academic career stages strive for a more inclusive and better understanding of knowledge about African environments.
It is a book for researchers, facilitators and policy-makers to make a case for participatory and integrative approaches resulting in systemic and co-created analyses.

Author / Editor information

Tobias Haller (Prof. Dr.), born 1965, is a professor at the Institute of Social Anthropology at the University of Bern, Switzerland, with a focus on economic, ecological, and political anthropology.
Claudia Zingerli (PhD), born 1973, is a scientific collaborator at the Swiss National Science Foundation and freelancer in diverse activities dealing with knowledge translation/knowledge brokerage and the co-creation of knowledge in science-policy interfaces.

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Frontmatter Open Access Download PDF	1
Contents Open Access Download PDF	5
Foreword Open Access Download PDF	9
1. Towards collaborative and integrative research in African environments An introduction Tobias Haller and Claudia Zingerli Open Access Download PDF	11
2. Soil classifications Between material facts and socio-ecological narratives Brice Prudat, Lena Bloemertz, Olivier Graefe and Nikolaus Kuhn Open Access Download PDF	25
3. Action research and reverse thinking for anti-desertification methods Applying local revegetation techniques based on the ecological knowledge of local farmers in the Sahel of West Africa Shuichi Oyama Open Access Download PDF	47
4. Energy and the environment in Sub-Saharan Africa Household perceptions of improved cookstoves Sarah Jewitt, Peter Atagher, Mike Clifford, Charlotte Ray and Temilade Sesan Open Access Download PDF	91
5. Fishing for food and food for fish Negotiating long-term, sustainable food and water resources in a transdisciplinary research project in Burkina Faso Gabriele Slezak, Jan Sendzimir, Raymond Ouedraogo, Paul Meulenbroek, Moumini Savadogo, Colette Kabore, Adama Oueda, Patrice Toe, Henri Zerbo and Andreas Melcher Open Access Download PDF	125
6. Conclusion Explorations and lessons for shared research Claudia Zingerli and Tobias Haller Open Access Download PDF	167
Authors Open Access Download PDF	181

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 186
Keywords: Epistemology; Action Anthropology; African Environments; Research Collaborations; Science; Sociology of Science; Ethnology; Cultural Anthropology

eBook

Published: March 27, 2020
ISBN: 9783839451502