Expertise in Rural Development: A Conceptual and Empirical Analysis

摘要: Abstract Understandings of socially distributed expertise as being key to living, interpreting and intervening in the world, are increasingly used development narratives, referring usually knowledge sharing across multi-stakeholder partnerships. This movement towards democratisation challenges ideological claim science be exclusive source objective information, evidence discovery on which informed decisions technological developments should based. But if we reject that claim, what implications for way stakeholders learn, organise transmit skills, resolve problems? And how do come together narratives practices? We address these questions through an examination changing relationship between scientific, professional non-professional rural development. Firstly, examine evolution models generation over past decades introduce concept vernacular – people have develop is place-based but crucially nourished by outside sources agents underpins neo-endogenous models. Secondly, drawing empirically qualitative research with advisory professionals who support farmer decision making unpack composition a fusion field/place generated focused knowledge, consider it may better recognised enhanced processes policy agendas.