Global Development Network: Recycling bins, garbage cans or think tanks?

This very simple, but nevertheless important finding implies some consequences for the study I am going to present: If we consider all knowledge, no matter who produces it, as political, the often and very intensively discussed definition of Think Tanks seems to be, at least for the determination of our study object, dispensable – if every knowledge production and exchange is political we have to study all organisation working in the field of knowledge production (or in this case, all organisations registered in GDN), no matter if they call themselves Think Tank or University.

The perception that every knowledge production is political is the main explanation for the importance of studies like the present one. We have to know more about the structures that produce the knowledge upon which politicians settle their policies.

Maybe even more important is to realize that ‘non-knowledge’ is political as well (St. Clair 2006: 81).

With ‘non-knowledge’ I mean the possibility to define what is, and what is not knowledge, respectively what is, and what is not relevant knowledge. Read Full Stroy>> https://kef-research.at/en/topics/knowledge-and-communication/what-is-a-global-development-network/#what-is-a-global-development-network