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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of abbreviations -- List of boxes, figures and tables -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Shedding light on German science policy for cooperation with developing countries and emerging economies -- 1.2 Sustainable development as normative background -- 1.3 Contributions to scientific literature -- 1.4 Analytical structure and outline of the chapters -- 2 Science in the context of sustainable development -- 2.1 Science for a cause? Between impact and autonomy -- 2.2 Science policy and society -- 2.3 Concepts of (sustainable) development -- 2.4 Science, innovation and (sustainable) development -- 3 Discourse analysis in a policy setting -- 3.1 The Sociology of Knowledge Approach to Discourse for policy analysis -- 3.2 The Sociology of Knowledge Approach to Discourse in empirical research -- 4 Research design and methodology -- 4.1 Scientific model and approach -- 4.2 Research design -- 4.3 Data collection and sampling -- 4.4 Fieldwork -- 4.5 Data analysis -- 4.6 Reflections on my position as a researcher -- 5 Public funding for international research cooperation in Germany -- 5.1 Research funders for cooperation with developing countries and emerging economies -- 5.2 The BMBF as funder of international research cooperation -- 5.3 International funding initiatives in FONA -- 6 Practices of policy production between structural frames, strategies and spaces of agency -- 6.1 Structures and agency in the process of discourse actualisation in science policy -- 6.2 Following a beaten track: Discourse reproduction -- 6.3 Policy makers as change agents -- 7 Friends and foes in science policy -- 7.1 Defending the turf: Ministries as political entities -- 7.2 Cooperation countries: From objects of policy to partners in policy making -- 7.3 Discourse coalitions -- 7.4 Power in discourse production -- 7.5 A self-reinforcing equilibrium in science policy -- 8 The heart of German science policy -- and its green lungs -- 8.1 The heart and soul of science policy -- 8.2 The green lungs: Sustainability as a new discourse in science policy -- 8.3 Translating the discursive leitmotif into discourses of international cooperation and sustainability -- 8.4 Policy rationales as elements of political identity and symbols of difference -- 8.5 Problematizing German interest -- 9 Objectives and expectations of the IWRM and Megacities funding initiatives -- 9.1 Deviating expectations in different funding initiatives of the Sustainability Subdepartment -- 9.2 Policy expectations and mode of science -- 9.3 High expectations, low conceptualisation -- 10 Policy effects -- coining realities -- 10.1 Effects of policy on projects: Monitoring as a strategy for stabilizing discourse -- 10.2 Projects between the influence of policy and rooms of adaptation -- 10.3 Project practice: Subversion or compliance? -- 11 Conclusions -- 11.1 Discourse stability and discourse change -- 11.2 The BMBF's sustainability concept vs. global sustainable development -- 11.3 Global development as opportunity for German science policy -- 11.4 Further research questions -- Appendices -- Appendix A-1: Overview of data collected in interviews and from participant observation -- Appendix A-2: Overview of interview partners -- Appendix A-3: Example of guidelines used for a semistructured interview -- Appendix A-4: Example of coverpage and first page of transcription of a semi-structured interview -- Appendix A-5: Exemplary page of fieldnotes -- Appendix A-6: Extract from list of codes -- Appendix B-1: Developing countries and emerging economies with bilateral science, technology and innovation cooperation agreements with Germany -- Appendix B-2: Overview of main BMBF funding measures for cooperation with developing countries and emerging economies -- Appendix B-3a: Overview over types of applied project outcomes in the IWRM funding priority -- Appendix B-3b: Overview over types of applied project outcomes in the Megacities funding initiative -- Bibliography |
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3839448824 |
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9783839448823 (electronic bk.) |
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9783837648829 (print) |
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