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The chapter is concerned with the role of knowledge for development and in Development Studies. Development relies on many different sorts of knowledge, known as multiple knowledges. Multiple knowledges relate to ‘knowledges’ from different disciplines, schools of thought or derived from different learning processes, cultures or world-views. Different forms of knowledge have always existed: practical or theoretical, analytical or rhetorical, formal or informal. One way of encompassing this reality has been to view the various approaches within a number of implicit or explicit hierarchies. These hierarchies are counterproductive to producing good quality knowledge. There is a pressing need to develop new discourses, narratives and arguments which articulate a perspective on the transformational role of knowledge for development.
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Powell, M., Cummings, S. (2019). Making the Most of Knowledge for Development and Development Studies. In: Baud, I., Basile, E., Kontinen, T., von Itter, S. (eds) Building Development Studies for the New Millennium. EADI Global Development Series. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04052-9_8
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