Engaged Encounters: Thinking about Forces, Fields and Friendships with Monique Nuijten

Dueholm Rasch, Elisabet (Editor) / Salemink, Oscar (Editor) / Büscher, Bram (Editor) / Köhne, Michiel (Editor)

ISBN 10: 9086863566 / ISBN 13: 9789086863563

Published by Wageningen Academic Publishers, 2020

About this Item

208 pages. 9.45x6.69x9.70 inches. In Stock. This item is printed on demand.

Seller Inventory # __9086863566

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Engaged Encounters: Thinking about Forces, Fields and Friendships with Monique Nuijten
• Publisher: Wageningen Academic Publishers
• Publication Date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9086863566
• ISBN 13: 9789086863563
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.45 kilograms

About this title

Synopsis

Engaged Encounters: Thinking about Forces, Fields and Friendships with Monique Nuijten is a festschrift celebrating the scholarly, professional and personal contributions and insights of Monique Nuijten. As a creative scholar, Monique is known for her theoretical contributions to the study of development, social movements, the state, organizations, and corruption - to name a few topics. She inspires many senior and junior colleagues, as well as students, with innovative concepts like 'force fields' and development as a 'hope-generating machine'. Nuijten grounds her theoretical interventions in fine-grained ethnographic observations with a keen and sympathetic eye for the diverse actors that inhabit the structures of power and patterns of inequality she encounters. For Nuijten, theoretical and ethnographic endeavors are deeply interwoven with personal and political engagements, most recently illustrated through her research on social movements in urban settings in Brazil and Spain. The intersection of these three integrated dimensions in Monique Nuijten's oeuvre and life - the theoretical, collegial and personal - are brought out clearly in the forty contributions that each in their own way, acknowledge her unique combination of intellectual sharpness and personal warmth. As such, Monique Nuijten's scholarly life embodies an exemplary model of engaged scholarship.