Browsing Okavango Research Institute (ORI) by Subject "Local knowledge"
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Classifying soils: points of convergence in indigenous knowledge engagement with scientific epistemologies
(Taylor & Francis Online; https://www.tandfonline.com/, 2022-02-25)While cultures are diverse in nature, there are many similarities between them. This is the case with African and Maōri cultures. Local people largely view their realities in a similar way. The question as to whether there ... -
Community based natural resource management, tourism and poverty alleviation in southern Africa: what works and what doesn’t work
(David Publishers, http://www.davidpublishing.com, 2013)Community based natural resource management (CBNRM) is perhaps the most important tool for driving community and rural development in southern Africa. The paper therefore analyses the CBNRM framework as a strategy for ... -
Is local knowledge peripheral? The future of Indigenous knowledge in research and development
(Sage; https://journals.sagepub.com/, 2022-04-11)The concepts of the core, semi-periphery, and periphery emanated from a mix of dependency and postmodernist thoughts, which rejected the notion of a Third World from which local knowledge emanates and develops. That local ...