Den amerikanske forsker, professor James Scott, tildeles årets Ester Boserup pris, opkaldt efter en kvinde, der satte sig mærkbare spor i dansk tilgang til u-landsarbejdet.
Prisen overrækkes fredag d. 3. maj af udviklingsministeren ved et arrangement kl. 13 til 15 på den gamle Landbohøjskole (nu LIFE) på Bülovsvej 17 i København.
Københavns universitet skriver (på engelsk) om prisen og prismodtageren:
The Copenhagen Centre for Development Research (http://www.sosder.life.ku.dk) awards the Ester Boserup Prize for outstanding social science research on development and economic history.
The prize is awarded to a scholar whose research has improved and deepened our knowledge of development dynamics and economic history, of poverty and wealth, of marginalization and political participation, and of lawlessness and justice.
This year’s recipient is Professor James Scott. Scott’s research concerns political economy, comparative agrarian societies, theories of hegemony and resistance, peasant politics, revolution, theories of class relations and anarchism.
The most significant works include: The Moral Economy of the Peasant (1976), Weapons of the Weak (1985), Domination and the Arts of Resistance (1990), Seeing like a State (1998), and The Art of Not Being Governed (2009).
His work has and continues to significantly shape the field of political analysis of developing societies, and potent metaphors such as ‘weapons of the weak’ and ‘seeing like a state’ have become household notions in development studies.
For over a generation, Scott has inspired new perspectives on development and political science by challenging conventional ‘truths’, thereby setting the intellectual and political agenda.
Scott’s extensive experience from the universities of Wisconsin and Yale, and in particular his directorship of the Agrarian Studies Program at Yale, has made him a unique reference point in development research, and his joint appointments as professor in Political Science and Anthropology at Yale bespeak his scholarly versatility.
Se også om James Scott på
http://politicalscience.yale.edu/people/james-sco
Se mere om (legendariske) Ester Boserup på
http://www.kvinfo.dk/side/597/bio/206/origin/170
Se også omtalen af dagens program på
http://www.u-landsnyt.dk/kalender-indhold/uddeling-af-ester-boserup-prisen-samt-foredrag
Yderligere oplysninger i øvrigt hos:
Lars Jørgensen, kommunikation
Institut for Fødevare- og Ressourceøkonomi
Københavns Universitet
Tlf. dir. 35 33 30 32 og e-mail: [email protected]
web: www.foi.dk
