This paper discusses relevance in development studies. We argue that current debates around relevance assume a … feel relevance can be pluralized and radicalized, but that this requires us to be ideologically transparent and to examine … rigour. Positivistic criteria imply a distinctive form of rationality, but if rationality is also pluralized then alternative …

purports to explain, and that the story of the model fails minimal requirements of factual relevance and intuitiveness. Our …