This article introduces and explores issues regarding the question of what constitute valid forms of development knowledge, focusing in particular on the relationship between fictional writing on development and more formal academic and policy-oriented representations of development issues. We...

The first CVO International Working Paper makes a set of general observations about international third sector research and argues that there are currently two ‘parallel universes’ of literature. The first of these is work which focuses on the ‘North’ (on what are often termed...

Culture has received increasing attention in critical development studies, though the notion that there are important cultural differences within and between development organisations has received less consideration. This paper elaborates elements of a framework for studying organizational...