Search results for "kehitystutkimus"
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Local knowledge and global justice : From hegemonic development to planetary well-being
2024
This chapter discusses the relationship between critical development studies and planetary well-being, showing how the former can add insights to the latter to build a comprehensive theory. Critical development studies is introduced as a field of study, which provides tools to uncover hidden power dynamics and ecologically destructive patterns in contemporary development. Development is analysed as a particular model of the good life, a societal programme, an epistemological system of power, and a global governance system. Using insights from critical development studies, the chapter points out differences between sustainable development and planetary well-being, noting that sustainable dev…
Generation and utilisation of natural product library for bioactivity screening and drug discovery
2006
Uusia lääkkeitä tarvitaan jatkuvasti. Koska luonnonaineet sisältävät bioaktiivisia yhdisteitä ja uusia kemiallisia rakenteita, ne tarjoavat lähes rajattoman uusien lääkeaineiden lähteen. Bioaktiivisuusseulontaan soveltuvan luonnonainekirjaston luomisen avulla voidaan luonnonaineisiin perustuvaa lääkekehitystutkimusta tehostaa lyhentäen prosessin normaalisti vaatimaa aikaa. Tässä työssä perustettiin luonnonaine (LA) kirjastojärjestelmä Lääkkeen keksintä- ja kehitysteknologian keskukselle (DDTC), joka on monitieteinen tutkimusyksikkö Helsingin yliopiston farmasian tiedekunnassa. Kokeellinen LA-kirjasto, joka sisältää sekä näytemateriaalia että tietokannan, perustettiin kesällä 2000 satunnaise…
At the Intersection of Instrumentalism, Understanding, and Critique : Reflections on Development Research on Citizenship in Uganda
2022
This special issue showcases four analyses of lived citizenship in Uganda – a country previously known as a donor darling but, recently, better known for its steady slide towards authoritarian rule (Ssentongo 2021, Tapscott 2021, Wilkins et. al. 2021, Wiegratz et. al. 2018). Individually, the articles draw on and contribute to diverse strands of debate within the field of citizenship studies. As a collection, however, they serve to illustrate a space characterized by three different knowledge interests in development-related research on African societies. A central contention is that the very notion of ‘development-related research’ requires definition; as a field, it is constituted and its…
Tiny Citizenship, Twisted Politics, and Christian Love in a Ugandan Church Choir
2022
In 1977, the Archbishop of the Church of Uganda, Janani Luwum, was killed under orders from President Idi Amin following his public criticism of Amin’s reign of terror. This article offers an ethnographic case study of a choir named in Luwum’s honour to extend existing research on the interrelations of Christianity, citizenship, and politics in contemporary Uganda. To do so, I draw a number of conceptual tools – tiny citizenship, authentic citizenship, twisted politics, and love – from work by and referencing Hannah Arendt, James Baldwin, and Gary Alan Fine. First, analyzing the choir’s participation in the national commemoration of Janani Luwum Day at Uganda’s State House in 2021, I argue …