{"id":"https://openalex.org/W3108420902","doi":"https://doi.org/10.3126/njdrs.v15i0.31596","title":"Locating Development as a New \u2018Discipline\u2019","display_name":"Locating Development as a New \u2018Discipline\u2019","publication_year":2018,"publication_date":"2018-12-03","ids":{"openalex":"https://openalex.org/W3108420902","doi":"https://doi.org/10.3126/njdrs.v15i0.31596","mag":"3108420902"},"language":"en","primary_location":{"id":"doi:10.3126/njdrs.v15i0.31596","doi":"https://doi.org/10.3126/njdrs.v15i0.31596","is_oa":true,"landing_page_url":"https://doi.org/10.3126/njdrs.v15i0.31596","pdf_url":"https://www.nepjol.info/index.php/njdrs/article/download/31596/24958","source":{"id":"https://openalex.org/S4210225579","display_name":"Nepalese Journal of Development and Rural Studies","issn_l":"2392-4403","issn":["2392-4403","3021-9884"],"is_oa":true,"is_in_doaj":false,"is_core":false,"listed_in":[],"host_organization":null,"host_organization_name":null,"host_organization_lineage":[],"host_organization_lineage_names":[],"type":"journal"},"license":"cc-by","license_id":"https://openalex.org/licenses/cc-by","version":"publishedVersion","is_accepted":true,"is_published":true,"raw_source_name":"Nepalese Journal of Development and Rural Studies","raw_type":"journal-article"},"volume":null,"type":"article","indexed_in":["crossref"],"open_access":{"is_oa":true,"oa_status":"diamond","oa_url":"https://www.nepjol.info/index.php/njdrs/article/download/31596/24958","any_repository_has_fulltext":false},"authorships":[{"author_position":"first","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5044014577","display_name":"Mahendra Sapkota","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7854-6554","observed_orcids":["https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7854-6554"]},"institutions":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/I155028946","display_name":"Tribhuvan University","ror":"https://ror.org/02rg1r889","country_code":"NP","type":"education","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I155028946"]},{"id":"https://openalex.org/I47881588","display_name":"Kathmandu University","ror":"https://ror.org/036xnae80","country_code":"NP","type":"education","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I47881588"]}],"countries":["NP"],"is_corresponding":true,"raw_author_name":"Mahendra Sapkota","raw_affiliation_strings":["Department of Development Studies, School of Arts Kathmandu University and CDRD, Tribhuvan University and pursuing Post-doctoral study in Anthropology"],"raw_orcid":null,"affiliations":[{"raw_affiliation_string":"Department of Development Studies, School of Arts Kathmandu University and CDRD, Tribhuvan University and pursuing Post-doctoral study in Anthropology","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I155028946","https://openalex.org/I47881588"]}]}],"institutions":[],"countries_distinct_count":1,"institutions_distinct_count":2,"corresponding_author_ids":["https://openalex.org/A5044014577"],"corresponding_institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I155028946","https://openalex.org/I47881588"],"apc_list":null,"apc_paid":null,"fwci":0.0,"has_fulltext":true,"cited_by_count":5,"citation_normalized_percentile":{"value":0.52812541,"is_in_top_1_percent":false,"is_in_top_10_percent":false},"cited_by_percentile_year":{"min":89,"max":96},"biblio":{"volume":"15","issue":null,"first_page":"42","last_page":"51"},"is_retracted":false,"is_paratext":false,"is_xpac":false,"primary_topic":{"id":"https://openalex.org/T14418","display_name":"Development, Ethics, and Society","score":0.7832000255584717,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/3303","display_name":"Development"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/33","display_name":"Social Sciences"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/2","display_name":"Social Sciences"}},"topics":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/T14418","display_name":"Development, Ethics, and Society","score":0.7832000255584717,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/3303","display_name":"Development"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/33","display_name":"Social Sciences"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/2","display_name":"Social Sciences"}},{"id":"https://openalex.org/T12969","display_name":"Economic and Social Development","score":0.16869999468326569,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/3312","display_name":"Sociology and Political Science"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/33","display_name":"Social Sciences"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/2","display_name":"Social Sciences"}},{"id":"https://openalex.org/T13502","display_name":"Community and Sustainable Development","score":0.01209999993443489,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/3304","display_name":"Education"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/33","display_name":"Social Sciences"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/2","display_name":"Social Sciences"}}],"keywords":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/development","display_name":"development","score":0.5630000233650208},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/contested-discourses","display_name":"contested discourses","score":0.777999997138977},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/development-critique","display_name":"critique of development","score":0.597000002861023}],"concepts":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/C2777152325","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q108163","display_name":"Proposition","level":2,"score":0.8288654088973999},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C12713177","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1900281","display_name":"Perspective (graphical)","level":2,"score":0.6981092095375061},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C2776542497","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5266672","display_name":"Development (topology)","level":2,"score":0.6620666980743408},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C111472728","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9471","display_name":"Epistemology","level":1,"score":0.626882016658783},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C162919384","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6883388","display_name":"Development theory","level":2,"score":0.5696151256561279},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C55587333","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1133029","display_name":"Engineering ethics","level":1,"score":0.5268068313598633},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C144024400","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21201","display_name":"Sociology","level":0,"score":0.4752768576145172},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C539667460","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2414942","display_name":"Management science","level":1,"score":0.3855569660663605},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C41008148","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21198","display_name":"Computer science","level":0,"score":0.27610594034194946},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C127413603","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11023","display_name":"Engineering","level":0,"score":0.16483891010284424},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C50522688","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q189833","display_name":"Economic growth","level":1,"score":0.09915006160736084},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C138885662","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5891","display_name":"Philosophy","level":0,"score":0.0953301191329956},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C162324750","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8134","display_name":"Economics","level":0,"score":0.09318122267723083},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C33923547","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q395","display_name":"Mathematics","level":0,"score":0.08412984013557434},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C154945302","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11660","display_name":"Artificial intelligence","level":1,"score":0.08303558826446533},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C134306372","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7754","display_name":"Mathematical analysis","level":1,"score":0.0}],"mesh":[],"locations_count":1,"locations":[{"id":"doi:10.3126/njdrs.v15i0.31596","doi":"https://doi.org/10.3126/njdrs.v15i0.31596","is_oa":true,"landing_page_url":"https://doi.org/10.3126/njdrs.v15i0.31596","pdf_url":"https://www.nepjol.info/index.php/njdrs/article/download/31596/24958","source":{"id":"https://openalex.org/S4210225579","display_name":"Nepalese Journal of Development and Rural Studies","issn_l":"2392-4403","issn":["2392-4403","3021-9884"],"is_oa":true,"is_in_doaj":false,"is_core":false,"listed_in":[],"host_organization":null,"host_organization_name":null,"host_organization_lineage":[],"host_organization_lineage_names":[],"type":"journal"},"license":"cc-by","license_id":"https://openalex.org/licenses/cc-by","version":"publishedVersion","is_accepted":true,"is_published":true,"raw_source_name":"Nepalese Journal of Development and Rural Studies","raw_type":"journal-article"}],"best_oa_location":{"id":"doi:10.3126/njdrs.v15i0.31596","doi":"https://doi.org/10.3126/njdrs.v15i0.31596","is_oa":true,"landing_page_url":"https://doi.org/10.3126/njdrs.v15i0.31596","pdf_url":"https://www.nepjol.info/index.php/njdrs/article/download/31596/24958","source":{"id":"https://openalex.org/S4210225579","display_name":"Nepalese Journal of Development and Rural Studies","issn_l":"2392-4403","issn":["2392-4403","3021-9884"],"is_oa":true,"is_in_doaj":false,"is_core":false,"listed_in":[],"host_organization":null,"host_organization_name":null,"host_organization_lineage":[],"host_organization_lineage_names":[],"type":"journal"},"license":"cc-by","license_id":"https://openalex.org/licenses/cc-by","version":"publishedVersion","is_accepted":true,"is_published":true,"raw_source_name":"Nepalese Journal of Development and Rural Studies","raw_type":"journal-article"},"sustainable_development_goals":[],"study_designs":[],"awards":[],"funders":[],"has_content":{"pdf":true,"grobid_xml":true},"content_urls":{"pdf":"https://content.openalex.org/works/W3108420902.pdf","grobid_xml":"https://content.openalex.org/works/W3108420902.grobid-xml"},"referenced_works_count":36,"referenced_works":["https://openalex.org/W407457214","https://openalex.org/W619935535","https://openalex.org/W1503958097","https://openalex.org/W1515810707","https://openalex.org/W1527254452","https://openalex.org/W1536314388","https://openalex.org/W1571976368","https://openalex.org/W1589800138","https://openalex.org/W1606354543","https://openalex.org/W1992454144","https://openalex.org/W1992925306","https://openalex.org/W2000138195","https://openalex.org/W2004016117","https://openalex.org/W2011358021","https://openalex.org/W2022544170","https://openalex.org/W2041919048","https://openalex.org/W2047100833","https://openalex.org/W2047773221","https://openalex.org/W2069832819","https://openalex.org/W2107056917","https://openalex.org/W2157446765","https://openalex.org/W2227185219","https://openalex.org/W2328213239","https://openalex.org/W2798001369","https://openalex.org/W2995168472","https://openalex.org/W4251751162","https://openalex.org/W4300513965","https://openalex.org/W6613023151","https://openalex.org/W6631981854","https://openalex.org/W6632382055","https://openalex.org/W6634363132","https://openalex.org/W6671648428","https://openalex.org/W6813409944","https://openalex.org/W7001178808","https://openalex.org/W7001998338","https://openalex.org/W7055558158"],"related_works":["https://openalex.org/W1983292799","https://openalex.org/W4386269644","https://openalex.org/W4393074755","https://openalex.org/W2224250045","https://openalex.org/W4387032376","https://openalex.org/W2529381966","https://openalex.org/W4232282351","https://openalex.org/W2325133434","https://openalex.org/W7171445177","https://openalex.org/W4243815424"],"abstract_inverted_index":{"Development":[0],"is":[1,37,63,81,94],"an":[2],"essentially":[3],"contested":[4],"discourse":[5],"and":[6,12,43,71,85,92],"debated":[7],"issue;":[8],"both":[9],"in":[10,88],"theoretical":[11],"empirical":[13],"world.":[14],"With":[15],"this":[16,18],"proposition,":[17],"paper":[19,30,48,59,74],"offers":[20],"a":[21,32,46],"synthesis":[22,47],"of":[23,26,57,90],"multifaceted":[24],"dimensions":[25],"development.":[27],"Methodologically":[28],"the":[29,58,77],"follows":[31],"critical":[33],"perspective,":[34],"though":[35],"it":[36],"based":[38],"only":[39],"on":[40],"secondary":[41],"data":[42],"prepared":[44],"as":[45],"drawing":[49],"insights":[50],"from":[51],"various":[52],"literatures.":[53],"The":[54,73],"major":[55],"arguments":[56],"include":[60],"that:":[61],"development":[62,80],"constantly":[64],"becoming":[65],"contradictory,":[66],"involving":[67],"different":[68],"actors,":[69],"agencies,":[70],"structures.":[72],"concludes":[75],"with":[76],"remark":[78],"that":[79],"being":[82],"questioned":[83],"elsewhere,":[84],"its":[86],"conclusion":[87],"terms":[89],"theory":[91],"practice":[93],"yet":[95],"contradictory":[96],"to":[97],"have":[98],"universal":[99],"validation.":[100]},"counts_by_year":[{"year":2025,"cited_by_count":1},{"year":2023,"cited_by_count":1},{"year":2022,"cited_by_count":3}],"updated_date":"2026-10-16T09:59:22.235173","created_date":"2020-12-07T00:00:00"}