Agricultural knowledge and knowledge systems in post-soviet societies

by Hornidge, Anna-Katharina Schetter, Conrad Shtaltovna, Anastasiya

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This volume addresses the crucial role of knowledge and innovation in coping with and adapting to socio-economic and political transformation processes in post-Soviet societies. Unique are the bottom up or micro-sociological and ethnographic perspectives offered by the book on the processes of post-Soviet transformations in Central Asia and the Southern Caucasus. Three thematic fields form the structuring frame: cultures of knowledge production and sharing in agriculture; local governance arran…

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Full title :Agricultural knowledge and knowledge systems in post-soviet societies / Anna-Katharina Hornidge, Anastasiya Shtaltovna and Conrad Schetter (eds.).

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Publication Date:©2016

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Publisher(s):Peter Lang
Place of Publication:Bern
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2016

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Description:1 online resource.

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ISBN:9783035108576, 3035108579
DOI:10.3726/978-3-0351-0857-6
oclc:ocn944346467
LC Classification:S790.3
Dewey Decimal:630.947

Anna-Katharina Hornidge/Anastasiya Shtaltovna/Conrad Schetter: Introduction: Independence, Transformation and the Search for a Future in Agriculture -- Kristof Van Assche/Anna-Katharina Hornidge/Anastasiya Shtaltovna/Hafiz Boboyorov: Epistemic Cultures in Transition: Agricultural Expertise Development in Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Georgia -- Jeanne Féaux de la Croix: Foot Soldiers of Development? The Role of Kyrgyzstani Treneri in Agricultural Knowledge Transfer -- Lena Fey: Which Knowledge, Which Agriculture? Local Farmers and Agricultural Development in Georgia -- Anja Katharina Salzer: Knowledge for Sustainability -- Cultural Capital of Ethnic Minorities in High Mountain Areas of the South Caucasus -- Filippo de Danieli/Anastasiya Shtaltovna: Competition Within the State, With the State and Beyond the State: Agricultural Extension in Tajikistan and the Struggles of Market Formation -- Tim Röing: Creating Business Mentalities: Knowledge and Rural Development in Georgia from a Discursive Perspective -- Irna Hofman: More Foreign than Other Foreigners: On Discourse and Adoption -- the Contradiction of Astonishment and Fear of Chinese Farm Practices in Tajikistan -- Kristof Van Assc…

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