Epistemic cultures, knowledge cultures and the transition of agricultural expertise: Rural development in Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Georgia

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In this paper, we investigate the utility of Knorr-Cetina's theory of epistemic cultures and knowledge cultures for the analysis of rural transition in post-socialist countries. We look at the evolution of agricultural expertise in Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Georgia, with a special interest in the reconstruction of 'extension', a concept we also critically investigate by means of Knorr-Cetina's framework. It is argued that rural transition in the three countries is marked by patterns of convergence and divergence, and that each path can be described as a unique and interdependent combination of epistemic cultures and knowledge culture, leading to unique modes of interpretation, recombination and implementation of both imported and pre-existing models of extension.

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• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: ZEF Working Paper Series ; No. 118

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft
• Thema: rural development ; Central Asia ; extension services ; knowledge ; epistemic cultures

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Van Assche, Kristof ; Hornidge, Anna-Katharina ; Shtaltovna, Anastasiya ; Boboyorov, Hafiz
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): University of Bonn, Center for Development Research (ZEF)
• (wo): Bonn
• (wann): 2013

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• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/88355