IDRC: 40 Years of Ideas, Innovation and Impact - Softcover

Bruce Muirhead (author)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1554583012 ISBN 13: 9781554583010

Verlag: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2010

Inhaltsangabe

The book focuses on the International Development Research Centre as a unique institution that has funded research in the developing South—research proposed and undertaken by Southern researchers—and how, as a result, it has had tremendous impact despite a relatively small budget. The IDRC is much better known in the developing South than in Canada; in many of the roughly 150 countries in which it has provided research funding it has contributed to creating a very positive image of Canada. The centre’s arms-length relationship with Canadian government assistance provides it with enormous freedom and flexibility—it was established in 1970 with its own act under the Trudeau government. The IDRC board is one-half international and one-half Canadian and is the only governmental agency in the world that has this structure, giving them unique insight into Southern development issues.

One of the IDRC’s founding principles was its insistence on having Southern researchers decide which projects would be put forward for possible funding, and much care has been taken to avoid “research imperialism” or “colonialism.” An analysis of the path less travelled, but which IDRC found amenable, is fundamental to this history of the centre, and the book highlights the decisions, ideas, and practices that flow from this basic premise.

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Bruce Muirhead is a professor in the Department of History at the University of Waterloo and the associate dean, Graduate Studies and Research. He is also a senior fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI). He is the co-editor, along with Ron Harpelle, of Long-Term Solutions for a Short-Term World: Canada and Research Development (WLU Press, 2011).
Ronald N. Harpelle is a historian and filmmaker. He is the author of The West Indians of Costa Rica and director of In Security, a documentary film about barbed wire and boundaries. With Bruce Muirhead he appeared in a six-part documentary series on international development, Citoyen du Monde, done for TFO.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1554583012
• ISBN 13: 9781554583010
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 402
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