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“Finding Out Is My Life”: Conversations with Ester Boserup in the 1990s

M. Fischer-Kowalski et al. (eds.), Ester Boserup’s Legacy on Sustainability, Human-Environment Interactions 4, 10.1007/978-94-017-8678-2_2

DOI 10.1007/978-94-017-8678-2_17

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Ester Boserup began an international career as a consultant and independent researcher when she was approximately 50 years old. She had previously spent more than two decades as a civil servant in the Danish administration in Copenhagen and with the United Nations in Geneva. Yet she had been conducting research in these administrative positions as well, and she did so until her last days. “Finding out is my life”, she used to say. What she found, and how she presented it, was often surprising. This was also the case with two publications that she produced after the age of 85: a short article on Development Theory: An Analytical Framework and Selected Applications (1996) and a booklet called My Professional Life and Publications 1929–1998 (1999).