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Indigeneity's voluntary migrations and involuntary displacements amply testify to its mobility historically. And yet, settler-colonialism resists recognizing this fact – even suggesting that indigeneity loses its status as Indigenous by spatial and temporal relocation. This article contrasts settler-colonial and experiential frameworks of indigeneity and immigrancy to further add to efforts to more securely ground Indigenous peoples' personhood and livelihoods in the world. Two main findings from this analysis include (1) indigeneity's 'inextricable', 'timeless' and 'immutable' linkage of place, past and an unchanging sense of identity diametrically opposite to immigrancy's 'displacement', 'evolution' and 'mutability' of ethnic identity as it moves ideally from immigrant toward citizen and (2) settler-colonialism's 'refusal to humanize' people who never migrated (the enslaved and the Indigenous) compared to its virtually boundless faith in the possible 'humanization' of all immigrancy (the 'melting pot'). These findings suggest that settler-colonialism views indigeneity as an unassimilable otherness – thus disclosing the limit and poor prospects of human rights discourses for sufficiently recognizing indigeneity outside the times and spaces settler-colonialism allots to it. Nevertheless, they also suggest fruitful changes of emphasis and existing models to learn from for better securing Indigenous personhood and its life-ways here and now.

This article explores factors contributing to a non-dominant collaboration paradigm in a partnership between a government-based international development agency and a university-based non-governmental organization. Anchored in Wood's and Gray's collaborative framework, this article describes how the steeply hierarchical partnership navigated the elements of collaboration – organizational autonomy; shared problem domain; interactive processes; shared rules, norms, and structures; and decision making – to produce non-dominant values and practices deriving from negotiated processes, rules, norms, and structures that produced positive collaboration outcomes. In particular, a history of prior mutually beneficial interactions emerges as a critical precondition for achieving a non-dominant collaboration in this case study's steeply hierarchical organizational relationship, one in which egalitarianism and equal decision-making regarding the agenda and the goals of the collaboration could have been highly constrained.

Preamble: Why this Book Now? -- Failing Forward: Systems Resilience for International Development -- International Development, Resilience, and Sustainability in Historical Perspective: What We Pursue and Why We Pursue It -- Scientific Animations Without Borders (SAWBO): A Resilient Systems Approach for Sustainable Growth -- The Medium for the Missing: Participatory Animated Media for Ethical and Effective Information Dissemination -- Resilience and Gender: Actionable Educational Steps toward Fulfilling the Sustainable Development Goals -- Wicked Solutions for Wicked Problems: Catalysts and the WIDGET model -- Changing for the Future: Two Case Studies of Resilience, Gender, and ICT4D in Burkina Faso and Ghana -- Contents, Media, and Genres for Learning -- Translating to Connect Local Languages for Learning -- Resilience, Gender, and the Democratization of Development through Digitization.

"This book explores the intersection of gender, digitization, and resilience in international development. Building resilience is increasingly seen as crucial when planning and implementing development programmes, enabling communities to mitigate, adapt to, and recover from shocks and stresses in a manner that reduces chronic vulnerability and facilitates inclusive growth. Gender plays a crucial role in the resilience of development systems, as the exclusion of women from the workforce can make communities more vulnerable to economic shocks, perpetuating and even worsening current levels of poverty, instability and insecurity. Drawing on meta-data from across the world, as well as specific case studies from Ghana, Kenya and Malawi, this book reflects on these intersections and the potential of digitalization as a democratizing tool for improving the access of women and other marginalized groups to information vital for their participation in the process of development. By outlining the importance of digitization for addressing gender imbalances, this book will draw the evidentiary lines between the role of digitization for women, and through women, for resilience as a whole. This book will be of interest to development practitioners and policy makers, as well as to researchers with specialisms in gender inclusion, resilience, digitization, and international development"--

Published online: 1 Oct 2018 ; Rapid dissemination of critical and accurate information to low-resource and poorly literate people in crisis situations has long been a challenge. Historically, print media as well as radio and television have served as major delivery channels. With the advent of cellphones, SMS (texting), and the Internet, these digital technologies now afford enhanced opportunities for reaching this poorly literate, low-resource client group quickly and efficiently. Here, we describe a two-step, rapid response approach to the Fall Armyworm (Spodoptera frugiperda), an invasive noctuid pest newly causing havoc on maize production in Africa and Asia. First, we developed a science-based, animated video – now being localized further into various languages across Africa and Asia – intended to aid semi-literate, smallholder farmers in identifying and scouting for fall armyworm effectively. Second, we made the animation easily available for (re)distribution in affected areas via the Internet and copying/sharing with Bluetooth®, thereby exponentially increasing the animation's reach across a wide spectrum of diverse languages and literacy levels. In this way, this form of asymmetrical communication hybridizes and combines the educational qualities of print dissemination with the range of radio/television delivery. An urgent need now exists to place the existing mobile ESD FAW animation into as many local languages as needed/possible to improve management of this pest. Such language variants will also increase the usefulness of the FAW animation for governments, intergovernmental institutions, non-government organizations, and civil society groups intent of working with farmers in Africa (and Asia) as it pertains to FAW IPM. The USAID, CIMMYT, IITA, and SAWBO teams will continue to foster awareness around mobile ESD as a FAW resource through each of their respective networks, but we also encourage other research and development organizations to do the same. More broadly, there is also the need to develop and disseminate further SAWBO mobile ESD animations on other aspects of FAW management to assist farmers in their attempts to control this pest. Making sure that target audiences have access to this animation, and any future animations, is undoubtedly a considerable challenge. It will be critical to inform intergovernmental, governmental, and non-governmental organizations, working directly or indirectly with farmers, that this resource exists, such that they can be the direct conduit to its deployment in the field. Thus, this (and any future FAW) animation(s) represent(s) a supporting tool for other organizations to use. It will also require that they develop localized pathways for deployment. However, it is important to note that training local educational deployment agents (e.g., extension agents) in the use of the SAWBO Deployer App allows for a highly effective approach to make SAWBO animations available for deployment with farmers in real time as new animations and language variants become available. ; United States Agency for International Development ; Peer Review