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Manners of contestation: “citizen science” and “indigenous knowledge” in West Africa and the Caribbean
Author(s) -
Leach Melissa,
Fairhead James
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
international social science journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.237
H-Index - 43
eISSN - 1468-2451
pISSN - 0020-8701
DOI - 10.1111/1468-2451.00383
Subject(s) - indigenous , citation , library science , political science , sociology , computer science , ecology , biology
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