Decolonizing Knowledge: From Development to Dialogue (WIDER Studies in Development Economics) - Tapa dura

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9780198288848: Decolonizing Knowledge: From Development to Dialogue (WIDER Studies in Development Economics)
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ISBN 10: 0198288840 ISBN 13: 9780198288848
Editorial: Clarendon Press, 1996

Sinopsis

Development failures, environmental degradation and social fragmentation can no longer be regarded as side effects of `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's as the future of the `third'. This book argues that the linear evolutionary paradigm of development that comes out of 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, the knowledge of Mexican and Indian peasants - propose a pluralistic vision and decolonization of knowledge: the replacement of one-way transfers of knowledge and technology by dialogue and mutual learning.

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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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Editorial
Clarendon Press
Año de publicación
1996
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0198288840
ISBN 13 
9780198288848
Encuadernación
Tapa dura
Número de páginas
406
Editor
Apffel-Marglin Frédérique, Marglin Stephen A.
Contacto del fabricante
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Persona responsable
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gpsr@libri.de

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