Kirjahaku

Highlighting an arts-based inquiry process that involves contemplation, mindful awareness, and artful writing, this book explores women’s difficult experiences in teaching. It weaves a strong autobiographical thread with artifacts from several research projects with female teachers. By linking innovative approaches to research that involve visual images and poetic writing with feminist poststructuralist theories and Buddhist-inspired practices, Walsh offers new understandings about what it means to be critical in research and teaching—and also what transformation, both social and personal, might entail.

In a compelling first-hand account of development assistance gone awry, Susan Walsh recounts how national, international, and multilateral organizations failed the Jalq'a people in the Bolivian Andes during the early millennium. Intent on assisting potato farmers, development organizations pushed for changes that ultimately served their own interests, paradoxically undermining local resilience and pushing farmers off their lands. Trojan-Horse Aid challenges the idea of Western capacity-building, particularly the notion that introduced technologies related to food production are essential ingredients for sustainable livelihoods among farmers. Walsh argues that the well-intentioned organizations working in Jalq'a communities paid insufficient attention to longstanding knowledge that has supported human survival in regions where the natural world has the upper hand. Walsh goes beyond a critical review of misguided aid to offer reflections on the relationship between indigenous knowledge and resilience theory, the hopeful future of development assistance, and the contradictions in her own hybrid role as researcher and development-practitioner. In light of growing global concern over the worsening food crisis and interconnected climate extremes, Trojan-Horse Aid offers an important critique of development practices that undermine peasant strategies as well as suggestions for more effective approaches for the future.

In a compelling first-hand account of development assistance gone awry, Susan Walsh recounts how national, international, and multilateral organizations failed the Jalq'a people in the Bolivian Andes during the early millennium. Intent on assisting potato farmers, development organizations pushed for changes that ultimately served their own interests, paradoxically undermining local resilience and pushing farmers off their lands. Trojan-Horse Aid challenges the idea of Western capacity-building, particularly the notion that introduced technologies related to food production are essential ingredients for sustainable livelihoods among farmers. Walsh argues that the well-intentioned organizations working in Jalq'a communities paid insufficient attention to longstanding knowledge that has supported human survival in regions where the natural world has the upper hand. Walsh goes beyond a critical review of misguided aid to offer reflections on the relationship between indigenous knowledge and resilience theory, the hopeful future of development assistance, and the contradictions in her own hybrid role as researcher and development-practitioner. In light of growing global concern over the worsening food crisis and interconnected climate extremes, Trojan-Horse Aid offers an important critique of development practices that undermine peasant strategies as well as suggestions for more effective approaches for the future.

Highlighting an arts-based inquiry process that involves contemplation, mindful awareness, and artful writing, this book explores women’s difficult experiences in teaching. It weaves a strong autobiographical thread with artifacts from several research projects with female teachers. By linking innovative approaches to research that involve visual images and poetic writing with feminist poststructuralist theories and Buddhist-inspired practices, Walsh offers new understandings about what it means to be critical in research and teaching—and also what transformation, both social and personal, might entail.

Data quality issues are an ever-growing problem for sales and marketing. Professionals in these sectors are expected to understand, clean and categorize data, though they may not always be data professionals. Covering how to deal with and fix data disasters, this book is designed to be a complete guide for early-mid career sales and marketing professionals on how to clean and organise their data and create a framework for data governance to future-proof it. It explains how to build a taxonomy to allow for easy segmentation and targeting of customers and how this in turn reduces spend and maximises effectiveness whilst minimising unnecessary costs. As data is now the foundation of every company, making sure your data is clean, complete and correct has never been more important. With practical examples and how-to guides throughout, Optimizing Sales and Marketing Data is immediately implementable, allowing readers to apply the knowledge to their own data right away. By being able to clean up and organize their data, sales and marketing professionals will be able to reduce their spend, increase their efficiency and profitability and become more confident handling and analyzing their customer data for further insights.

Data quality issues are an ever-growing problem for sales and marketing. Professionals in these sectors are expected to understand, clean and categorize data, though they may not always be data professionals. Covering how to deal with and fix data disasters, this book is designed to be a complete guide for early-mid career sales and marketing professionals on how to clean and organise their data and create a framework for data governance to future-proof it. It explains how to build a taxonomy to allow for easy segmentation and targeting of customers and how this in turn reduces spend and maximises effectiveness whilst minimising unnecessary costs. As data is now the foundation of every company, making sure your data is clean, complete and correct has never been more important. With practical examples and how-to guides throughout, Optimizing Sales and Marketing Data is immediately implementable, allowing readers to apply the knowledge to their own data right away. By being able to clean up and organize their data, sales and marketing professionals will be able to reduce their spend, increase their efficiency and profitability and become more confident handling and analyzing their customer data for further insights.