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Author McLellan, Timothy G., 1987- author.

Title Science interrupted : rethinking research practice with bureaucracy, agroforestry, and ethnography / Timothy G. McLellan
Published Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2024
©2024

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 160 pages)
Series Expertise : cultures and technologies of knowledge
Expertise (Ithaca, N.Y.)
Contents Theory of Change -- Bureaucracy as Interruption -- Refusing Trust, Evading Vulnerability -- Humanizing Bureaucrats -- Accelerating, Upscaling, Deskilling -- A Feel for the Environment -- Generating and Evading Vulnerability
Summary "An ethnography of an agroenvironmental research center in southwest China. The book takes the experiences of the staff navigating diverse international funding regimes and authoritarian state institutions as an entry point for understanding the increasingly pervasive place of bureaucracy in contemporary science"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 21, 2023)
Subject Agroforestry -- Research -- China, Southwest -- Evaluation
Agroforestry -- Research -- Documentation -- China, Southwest
Research institutes -- China, Southwest -- Evaluation
Bureaucracy -- China, Southwest
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
Agroforestry -- Research -- Evaluation
Bureaucracy
Research institutes -- Evaluation
Southwest China
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2023020291
ISBN 9781501773358
1501773356
1501773348
9781501773341