Manners of contestation: “citizen science” and “indigenous knowledge” in West Africa and the Caribbean

and professorial fellow of the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex, where she co-leads the Environment Group. Email: m.leach@ids.ac.uk. James Fairhead is professor of anthropology in the School of African and Asian Studies, University of Sussex. Email: J.R.Fairhead@sussex.ac.uk. They have jointly researched and published extensively on issues of knowledge, power, science, and policy in West Africa (for example Misreading the African Landscape, 1996; Reframing Deforestation, 1998) and recently, in comparative work including the Caribbean (Science, Policy and Society, forthcoming). Manners of contestation: “citizen science” and “indigenous knowledge” in West Africa and the Caribbean