This article explores why modernization myths live on in spite of professional reflexivity in planned development. The focus is on irrigation planning in Chitwan District, Nepal, from the 1950s onwards. In analyzing modernist convictions and professional reflexivity in planned development, the analysis takes into account the use of expert knowledge artefacts, such as maps, and a professional culture of ‘masculinity’ in irrigation. The analysis suggests that uses of maps in irrigation planning are meaningful for professionals, because they help normalize an association in water knowledge between (male) engineers, ideas of supremacy, and claims of technology and scientific authority. In this capacity, maps can be considered to ‘perform’, subc...
Scales do not emanate from some pre-existing reality, but instead actively help to produce them. Sca...
Scales do not emanate from some pre-existing reality, but instead actively help to produce them. Sca...
Large-scale male outmigration has placed new pressures on both men and women, especially regarding l...
This article explores why modernization myths live on in spite of professional reflexivity in planne...
Cet article explore pourquoi le mythe de la modernisation persiste malgré une réflexivité profession...
This article argues that there are contradictions between gender goals and policies and the aspirati...
<strong>Summary</strong> This thesis documents my attempt to study masculinities among irrigation en...
In this article, using the Department of Irrigation in Nepal as a case study, we argue that professi...
In this article, using the Department of Irrigation in Nepal as a case study, we argue that professi...
Beginning with colonial times and continuing to the present, irrigation engineering has been and is ...
In Nepal, Farmer Managed Irrigation Systems (FMISs) dominate the number and the irrigated area. The...
ABSTRACT: The aim of this article is to provide an informed plea for more explicitly identifying, na...
Nepal has a long history of irrigation, including government and farmer-managed irrigation systems t...
Beginning with colonial times and continuing to the present, irrigation engineering has been and is ...
Large-scale male outmigration has placed new pressures on both men and women, especially regarding l...
Scales do not emanate from some pre-existing reality, but instead actively help to produce them. Sca...
Scales do not emanate from some pre-existing reality, but instead actively help to produce them. Sca...
Large-scale male outmigration has placed new pressures on both men and women, especially regarding l...
This article explores why modernization myths live on in spite of professional reflexivity in planne...
Cet article explore pourquoi le mythe de la modernisation persiste malgré une réflexivité profession...
This article argues that there are contradictions between gender goals and policies and the aspirati...
<strong>Summary</strong> This thesis documents my attempt to study masculinities among irrigation en...
In this article, using the Department of Irrigation in Nepal as a case study, we argue that professi...
In this article, using the Department of Irrigation in Nepal as a case study, we argue that professi...
Beginning with colonial times and continuing to the present, irrigation engineering has been and is ...
In Nepal, Farmer Managed Irrigation Systems (FMISs) dominate the number and the irrigated area. The...
ABSTRACT: The aim of this article is to provide an informed plea for more explicitly identifying, na...
Nepal has a long history of irrigation, including government and farmer-managed irrigation systems t...
Beginning with colonial times and continuing to the present, irrigation engineering has been and is ...
Large-scale male outmigration has placed new pressures on both men and women, especially regarding l...
Scales do not emanate from some pre-existing reality, but instead actively help to produce them. Sca...
Scales do not emanate from some pre-existing reality, but instead actively help to produce them. Sca...
Large-scale male outmigration has placed new pressures on both men and women, especially regarding l...