Decolonizing Knowledge
From Development to Dialogue (W I D E R Studies in Development Economics)
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Contributions
- Frederique Apffel-Marglin (Editor) - Contributor
- Stephen A. Marglin (Editor) - Contributor
Publication
1996-06-24 - Oxford University Press, USA
Language
English
Word Count
102,000 words, Guess
Page Count
408 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL7399095M
- ISBN-139780198288848
- ISBN-100198288840
- OCLC Control Number503399636
- OCLC Control Number33439276
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- Internet Archivedecolonizingknow0000unse
- Library of Congress Control Number95046913
- Goodreads370267
Classifications
- LCCHD75.D435 1996
Description
Development failures, environmental degradation, and social fragmentation can no longer be regarded as side-effects or 'externalities'. They are the toxic consequences of pretensions that the modern Western view of knowledge is a universal neutral view, applicable to all people at all times. The very word 'development' and its cognates 'underdevelopment' and 'developing' confidently mark the 'first world' as the future of the 'third'. This book argues that the linear evolutionary paradigm of development that comes out of the modern Western view of knowledge is a contemporary form of colonialism. The authors - covering topics as diverse as the theory of knowledge underlying the work of John Maynard Keynes, what the renowned British geneticist J. B. S. Haldane was looking for when he migrated to India, and the knowledge of Mexican and Indian peasants - propose a pluralistic vision and a decolonization of knowledge: the replacement of one-way transfers of knowledge and technology by dialogue and mutual learning.
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- Decolonizing Knowledge: From Development to Dialogue (W I D E R Studies in Development Economics)
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