Expertise
From [[http://cpsquare.org CPsquare]], the community of practice on communities of practice.
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- Gordon Wilson, "Beyond the Technocrat? The Professional Expert in Development Practice" Development and Change 37(3): 501–523 (2006). Institute of Social Studies 2006. Published by Blackwell Publishing, 9600 Garsington Road, Oxford OX4 2DQ, UK and 350 Main St., Malden, MA 02148, USA. Abstract: "This article traces the use of the term ‘technocratic’ to describe development practice, and the concomitant use of ‘technocrat’ to describe professional experts who engage in development work. It locates the use of these terms as pejorative labels within understandings of professional experts as part of an apparatus of governmentality that depoliticizes development intervention. It argues, however, that such understandings miss the crucial point of engagement in development practice between these agents and other actors which opens ‘learning spaces’ that have the potential for a range of outcomes." (an online copy is available here. Also belongs in International development
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