期刊名称：Journal of Alternative Perspectives in the Social Sciences
印刷版ISSN：1944-1088
电子版ISSN：1944-1096
出版年度：2010
卷号：2
期号：1
页码：340-371
出版社：Guild of Independent Scholars
摘要：This paper considers how inter-institutional power relations, managerial discourses, and informal learning coalesce within a network of development actors. To do so it explores examples from within a progressive Non Governmental Organisation in Senegal and a farmer's Federation which they support in ways which produced complex outcomes, but also present opportunities for learning and critical reflection. These moments of informal and incidental learning, I argue, can play an invaluable role in making visible relations of power and domination, informing future struggle, strengthening collective strategy and resolve, and ultimately helping to strengthen or reassert peoples' independence, agency, and ability to provide for themselves. I examine where these learning opportunities presented themselves and were acted upon within these cases, and identify factors that affected peoples' ability to successfully draw upon learning and critical reflection.
