Frontmatter 1
Contents 5
Acknowledgements 11
List of abbreviations 13
List of boxes, figures and tables 19
1.1 Shedding light on German science policy for cooperation with developing countries and emerging economies 21
1.2 Sustainable development as normative background 25
1.3 Contributions to scientific literature 27
1.4 Analytical structure and outline of the chapters 29
2.1 Science for a cause? Between impact and autonomy 33
2.2 Science policy and society 35
2.3 Concepts of (sustainable) development 40
2.4 Science, innovation and (sustainable) development 46
3.1 The Sociology of Knowledge Approach to Discourse for policy analysis 61
3.2 The Sociology of Knowledge Approach to Discourse in empirical research 64
4.1 Scientific model and approach 77
4.2 Research design 78
4.3 Data collection and sampling 79
4.4 Fieldwork 82
4.5 Data analysis 84
4.6 Reflections on my position as a researcher 86
5.1 Research funders for cooperation with developing countries and emerging economies 93
5.2 The BMBF as funder of international research cooperation 100
5.3 International funding initiatives in FONA 105
6.1 Structures and agency in the process of discourse actualisation in science policy 109
6.2 Following a beaten track: Discourse reproduction 118
6.3 Policy makers as change agents 123
7.1 Defending the turf: Ministries as political entities 129
7.2 Cooperation countries: From objects of policy to partners in policy making 139
7.3 Discourse coalitions 143
7.4 Power in discourse production 158
7.5 A self-reinforcing equilibrium in science policy 161
8.1 The heart and soul of science policy 165
8.2 The green lungs: Sustainability as a new discourse in science policy 172
8.3 Translating the discursive leitmotif into discourses of international cooperation and sustainability 180
8.4 Policy rationales as elements of political identity and symbols of difference 192
8.5 Problematizing German interest 196
9.1 Deviating expectations in different funding initiatives of the Sustainability Subdepartment 199
9.2 Policy expectations and mode of science 216
9.3 High expectations, low conceptualisation 228
10.1 Effects of policy on projects: Monitoring as a strategy for stabilizing discourse 233
10.2 Projects between the influence of policy and rooms of adaptation 239
10.3 Project practice: Subversion or compliance? 250
11.1 Discourse stability and discourse change 255
11.2 The BMBF's sustainability concept vs. global sustainable development 262
11.3 Global development as opportunity for German science policy 267
11.4 Further research questions 274
Appendix A-1: Overview of data collected in interviews and from participant observation 277
Appendix A-2: Overview of interview partners 279
Appendix A-3: Example of guidelines used for a semistructured interview 286
Appendix A-4: Example of coverpage and first page of transcription of a semi-structured interview 288
Appendix A-5: Exemplary page of fieldnotes 291
Appendix A-6: Extract from list of codes 292
Appendix B-1: Developing countries and emerging economies with bilateral science, technology and innovation cooperation agreements with Germany 293
Appendix B-2: Overview of main BMBF funding measures for cooperation with developing countries and emerging economies 294
Appendix B-3a: Overview over types of applied project outcomes in the IWRM funding priority 297
Appendix B-3b: Overview over types of applied project outcomes in the Megacities funding initiative 300
Bibliography 303