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"Because they matter": recognise diversity - globalise research
"Weil sie wichtig sind": Vielfalt anerkennen, Forschung globalisieren
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GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies - Leibniz-Institut für Globale und Regionale Studien
Abstract The policy implications of this approach are threefold. First, engagement by practitioners with scholars specialising in the regions is necessary to understand what other key players want. Second, a global approach does not mean idealisation of "the other". Hand in hand with such a study may sometim... view more
The policy implications of this approach are threefold. First, engagement by practitioners with scholars specialising in the regions is necessary to understand what other key players want. Second, a global approach does not mean idealisation of "the other". Hand in hand with such a study may sometimes come a recognition of the red lines, and an admission of irreconciliable differences for policy. Finally, grand polarised representations may not have helped policy-makers in the past. Detailed context-sensitive understanding, accompanied by an attention to how concepts travel and change across cultures, may generate some pleasant surprises on expanding negotiating space and the identification of like-minded allies. (author's abstract)... view less
Keywords
research; pluralism; cultural diversity; globalization; methodology; social science
Classification
Sociology of Science, Sociology of Technology, Research on Science and Technology
Document language
English
Publication Year
2016
City
Hamburg
Page/Pages
10 p.
Series
GIGA Focus Global, 1
ISSN
1862-3581
Status
Published Version; reviewed
Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works