Knowledge for Justice

Tor Halvorsen, Hilde Ibsen

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With the adoption of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Paris Agreement, the purpose of development is being redefined in both social and environmental terms. Despite pushback from conservative forces, change is accelerating in many sectors. To drive this transformation in ways that bring about social, environmental and economic justice at a local, national, regional and global levels, new knowledge and strong cross-regional networks capable of foregrounding different realities, needs and agendas will be essential. In fact, the power of knowledge matters today in ways that humanity has probably never experienced before, placing an emphasis on the roles of research, academics and universities. In this collection, an international diverse collection of scholars from the southern African and Nordic regions critically review the SDGs in relation to their own areas of expertise, while placing the process of knowledge production in the spotlight. In Part I, the contributors provide a sober assessment of the obstacles that neo-liberal hegemony presents to substantive transformation. In Part Two, lessons learned from North�South research collaborations and academic exchanges are assessed in terms of their potential to offer real alternatives. In Part III, a set of case studies supply clear and nuanced analyses of the scale of the challenges faced in ensuring that no one is left behind. This accessible and absorbing collection will be of interest to anyone interested in North�South research networks and in the contemporary debates on the role of knowledge production. The Southern African�Nordic Centre (SANORD) is a network of higher education institutions that stretches across Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Botswana, Namibia, Malawi, South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe. Universities in the southern African and Nordic regions that are not yet members are encouraged to join.

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• Publié par: African Minds
• Date de parution: 28 novembre 2017
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781928331643
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 5 Mo

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Knowledge for justice
Edited by Tor Halvorsen, Hilde Ibsen,
Critical perspectives from southern
Henri-Count Evans and Sharon Penderis
African-Nordic research partnerships
Knowledge for justice
Critical perspectives from southern African-Nordic
research partnerships
With the adoption of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals
(SDGs) and the Paris Agreement, the purpose of development is being
rede ned in both social and environmental terms. Despite pushback from
conservative forces, change is accelerating in many sectors. To drive this
transformation in ways that bring about social, environmental and economic
justice at a local, national, regional and global levels, new knowledge and
strong cross-regional networks capable of foregrounding di erent realities
and agendas will be essential. In fact, the power of knowledge matters
today in ways that humanity has probably never experienced before, placing
renewed emphasis on the roles of research, academics and universities.
In this collection, a diverse team of scholars from the southern African and
Nordic regions critically review the SDGs in relation to their own areas of Knowledge for justice
expertise, while placing the process of knowledge production in the spotlight.
In Part I, the contributors provide a sober assessment of the obstacles that
Critical perspectives from southern African-Nordic neo-liberal hegemony presents to substantive transformation. In Part Two,
lessons learned from North–South research collaborations and academic
research partnershipsexchanges are assessed in terms of their potential to o er real alternatives.
In Part III, a set of case studies supply clear and nuanced analyses of the
scale of the challenges faced in ensuring that no one is left behind.
The Southern African–Nordic Centre (SANORD) is a network of higher
education institutions that stretches across Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway,
Sweden, Botswana, Namibia, Malawi, South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
Universities in the southern African and Nordic regions that are not yet members
are encouraged to join.
ISBN 978-1-928331-63-6
AFRICAN
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Critical perspectives from southern African-Nordic
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Critical perspectives from southern African-Nordic
research partnerships
Edited by Tor Halvorsen, Hilde Ibsen,
Henri-Count Evans and Sharon Penderis
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Email: [e-mail] Contents
Acronyms and abbreviations vii
Introduction 1
Tor Halvorsen, Hilde Ibsen, Henri-Count Evans and Sharon Penderis
Part I: KNOWLEDGE AND NEO-LIBERALISM
1 Te Sustainable Development Goals, knowledge production
and the global struggle over values 13
Tor Halvorsen
2 Te Sustainable Development Goals, the Paris Agreement
and the Addis Agenda: Neo-liberalism, unequal development
and the rise of a new imperialism 37
Henri-Count Evans and Rosemary Musvipwa
3 Academic freedom and its enemies: Lessons from Sweden 57
Jens Stilhof Sörensen and Erik J Olsson
4 New public management as a mechanism of accumulation
by dispossession: Te case of a public bulk water provider
in South Africa 71
Carina van Rooyen
5 To ft or not to ft, is that the question? Global goals, basic
education and theories of knowledge in South Africa and Sweden 93
Hilde Ibsen, Sharon Penderis and Karin Bengtsson
6 Academia in the context of constraint and a performative SDG
agenda: A perspective on South Africa 115
Suriamurthee Maistry and Erlend Eidsvik
Part II: NORTH–SOUTH COLLABORATION
7 Contributing to the agenda for sustainable development
through North–South educational partnerships: An analysis
of two Linnaeus-Palme staf–student exchanges between Sweden
and South Africa 131
Kate Rowntree and Roddy Fox8 Preparing to build researchers’ capacity in development
and community mobilisation: Towards sustainable North–South
collaborations 147
Tembinkosi E Mabila and Rachel J Singh
9 North–South research collaboration and the Sustainable
Development Goals: Challenges and opportunities for academics 163
Stephen Mago
10 Education for employability: A response to industry demands 175
Robert L Martin, Regina Krause, Martha T Namutuwa,
Evgenia Mahler and Hartmut Domröse
Part III: CASE STUDIES
11 Contextual factors afecting the attainment of life satisfaction
among elderly people in Zambia’s North-Western province 189
Mubiana K Sitali-Ngoma and Emmy H Mbozi
12 Home–school relations and the role of indigenous knowledge in
early literacy learning: A case study from a rural school in Zambia 207
Anne Marit Vesteraas Danbolt, Dennis Banda, Jørgen Klein
and Geofrey Tambulukani
13 Relocation of the homestead: A customary practice in the
communal areas of north-central Namibia 227
Antti Erkkilä and Nelago Indongo
About the contributors 239Frequently used acronyms and abbreviations
CDM Clean Development Mechanism
CEO chief executive ofcer
DFID Department for International Development
ECTS European Credit Transfer System
FDI foreign direct investment
GCIs green campus initiatives
GIS geographic information systems
IAU International Association of Universities
ICT information and communications technology
IPPE International Programme in Politics and Economics
ITMOs internationally transferred mitigation outcomes
IWRM integrated water resource management
LEMS Literacy Education in Multilingual Settings
MDGs Millennium Development Goals
MSRDT Multidisciplinary student and research development teams
NOQA Nordic Quality Assurance Network in Higher Education
NPM new public management
NRF National Research Foundation
OECD Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
PISA Programme for International Student Assessment
PPPs public–private partnerships
PRP Primary Reading Programme
PUPs public–public partnerships
SANORD Southern African–Nordic Centre
SAQMEC S n and Eastern Africa Consortium for Monitoring
Educational Quality
SDGs Sustainable Development Goals
SDSN Svelopment Solutions Network
SWOT strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats
UNDP United Nations Development Programme
UNFCCC ations Framework Convention on Climate Change
UNRISD United Nations Research Institute for Social Development
VoB Voice of Business
WIL work integrated learning
WHO World Health Organization
WTO World Trade Oation
viiIntroduction
Tor Halvorsen, Hilde Ibsen, Henri-Count Evans
and Sharon Penderis
This is the third book in a series that has evolved out of conferences
hosted by the Southern-Africa-Nordic Centre (SANORD), where
researchers from the southern African and the Nordic countries have met to
discuss aspects of knowledge production relevant to sustainability. Tis 2017
volume also marks SANORD’s tenth anniversary as a network that candidly
and critically engages with the ideologies and knowledge systems that span
the two regions and within the diferent member institutions.
Since the early 2000s, international academic networks have grown
phenomenally and are increasingly acknowledged to be a critical part of
the work done in universities and research institutions. From its inception,
SANORD had a head start, in the sense that many of its founding institutions
had already forged close relationships over previous decades through numerous
cross-regional linkages and collaborative projects. Of course, the southern
African and Nordic countries have followed very diferent trajectories related
to modernisation and development, but as relationships between the two
regions have evolved, the similarities between them have come to the fore.
Framed by our positions in the global economy, and within the international
geopolitical balance of power, we have numer