What if there’s a whole world of ‘expertise’ that we simply don’t consider?”
In Duncan Green’s From Poverty to Power blog, Who is an expert? guest blogger Farida Bena confesses to “hav[ing] many lists of experts on file” and noticing that “it’s usually people from a Northern/Western background, with endless degrees and credentials, most of them English-speaking.” She asks the pertinent question “What if there’s a whole world of ‘expertise’ that we simply don’t consider?” Interestingly this comes on the heels of the launch of ReCAP’s “ Retaining Rural Access Knowledge of Experienced Rural Transport Sector Experts ” set of short videos, which, if one was to describe rather crassly, is a collection of snippets on different topics from 17 talking heads who were selected on their seniority and probability of either not being around much longer, or losing it even if they were!! A rather depressing thought considering I was one of them!! Equally depressing was the fact that of the 17 chosen few, 12 were white and 13 were men, 6 were engineers a