Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Myrttinen, Henri
• Mastonshoeva, Subhiya

Titel

From Remote Control to Collaboration: Conducting NGO Research at a Distance in Tajikistan

Ist Teil von

• Civil wars, 2019-04, Vol.21 (2), p.228-248

Ort / Verlag

Abingdon: Routledge

Erscheinungsjahr

2019

Quelle

Worldwide Political Science Abstracts

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Using a domestic violence-prevention project in Tajikistan as an example, we examine how international non-governmental organisations' (NGOs) knowledge production-at-a-distance, working through in-country teams who in turn rely on their local brokers, raises questions around ownership, power and privilege. These include issues around language and translation; motivations and agendas; and the neo-coloniality of data extraction and analysis. Yet, long-distance approaches can also have an emancipatory dynamic, leading to new forms of coproducing knowledge, although the frameworks for this continue to be defined by the Global North, even if the categories of 'Global North' and 'Global South' are becoming increasingly blurred.