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The poverty of numbers: reflections on the legitimacy of global development indicators
It is no surprise that development institutions and actors have taken to indicators with such enthusiasm. Where indicators are both a form of knowledge production and simultaneously a technology of governance, they are a form of soft powers that allow such actors to set the standards for what it is to be developed in the twenty-first century. Such measures of civilisation have been dominant throughout a history of Global North–South encounters: measurement was central to the many forms of colonial control, from map-making to craniometry, to the global ‘discovery’ of poverty in the 1940s. This paper seeks to place development indicators in this colonial context by focusing on the issue of comparability or the global claim that underpins global development indicators.
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Evaluating the Success of Decentralisation in Facilitating the Inclusion of Rwanda’s Marginalised
Decentralisation plays a key role in Rwanda’s efforts to overcome the violence and instability of the past by fostering national unity and by bringing governance closer to the people. This paper examines the impact of decentralisation on the feelings of inclusion of Rwanda’s most marginalised group, the Batwa. Drawing on a 4-year empirical project, our findings suggest that, despite impressive improvements in the living standards of the poorest and efforts to encourage participation in local decision making, many Twa do not feel included. This suggests that the government has not yet succeeded in creating downward accountability. We attribute this to two factors: continuing economic inequality and poor communication.
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Away with oppressed methodology! Reflections on an experiment in Law & Development education
Ten years ago, six institutions came together to establish a joint doctoral programme. The shared motivations behind this project were to improve the quality of doctoral research that we encountered and to create a space for qualitative research within our law schools. We called the project the ‘European Joint Doctorate in Law and Development’ (EDOLAD). A key element of the programme was to be a core, and therefore compulsory, curriculum that all researchers were to follow. For most of the scholars involved in the project, L&D was a useful label that allowed us to bridge our different interests and to create shared ground. For some, though, the core curriculum also provided an opportunity to define what we thought L&D education or legal research should be. What emerged was a focus on critical methodology. This paper explores this by reflecting on what we had hoped to achieve with the core curriculum and draws on EDOLAD researchers’ experiences to determine what impact our efforts at creating an L&D-focused education may have had. What our reflections here suggest, in part, is the difficulty of creating a coherent, field-building, programme of education in a multi-university collaboration in which resources are unevenly distributed; but also, more interestingly, that L&D as a concept — at least as we imagined it — seems to struggle to provide a scholarly identity for critical researchers.
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A reflection on re-racialising: comments on Eve Darian-Smith's book, Laws and Societies in Global Contexts
Eve Darian-Smith's Law and Societies in Global Contexts' did not make much of an impact upon publication in 2013, perhaps because it chose not to ally itself with any of the major Cambridge University Press series or, more likely, because of its strange hybrid format: neither textbook nor monograph nor texts and materials, but instead a little of each, it is difficult to pigeon hole and its audience is not readily apparent. This meant that, despite the glowing endorsements on the back, it did not seem to top many people's reading list in 2013. 'Law and Societies' has been a slow burner though, quietly but insistently inserting itself into a central position in the emerging canon of global legal scholarship. It has become a go-to book for both education and scholars in this field. That it has done so is due to the quality of the writing, the smart contextualisation and use of law and society scholarship to lay the foundations of Darian-Smith's call for the emergence of a global socio-legal scholarship and the timeliness of that message. That it has taken a while for the qualities of the book to emerge is, I think, a consequence of the format confusion.
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