"The Experts Taught Us All We Know": Professionalisation and Knowledge in Nepalese Community Forestry

Working the Spaces of Neoliberalism: Activism, Professionalisation and Incorporation

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 186-208

  Nightingale, Andrea J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Caste hierarchies, oppositions to neoliberal processes; Caste relations, within labour relations, and contradictions; Community forestry in mugu, changes in labour relations; Community forestry in Nepal, promoting learning; Economic aspects of neoliberalism in Nepal; Neoliberal processes of professionalisation, and power relations; Neoliberalism, economic programme for social progress; Neoliberalism, within environment programmes in nepal; Nepalese community forestry, "the experts...all we know"; Professionalisation of forestry in nepal, and forest management

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886024190     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444397437.ch9     Document Type: Chapter

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