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Time, idealisation and international development: promoting Canadian co‐management in northern Russia
Author(s) -
Wilson Elana
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
area
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.958
H-Index - 82
eISSN - 1475-4762
pISSN - 0004-0894
DOI - 10.1111/j.1475-4762.2007.00758.x
Subject(s) - cognitive reframing , corporate governance , political science , trace (psycholinguistics) , public relations , sociology , business , psychology , social psychology , linguistics , philosophy , finance
In this article, I trace the efforts of a development team working to promote a Canadian approach to natural resources management in the Russian North. These development workers used two communication strategies related to time and history to render Canadian knowledge mobile and applicable to a new location: (1) imagining today's Russian North as equivalent to the Canadian northern past and (2) reframing and idealising the Canadian past and present to make the governance export less discursively ‘messy’ for an outside audience. The relative failure of these communicative strategies points to the need for richer dialogue in efforts to move knowledge cross‐culturally.