Decolonizing Knowledge: From Development to Dialogue (W I D E R STUDIES IN DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS) - Hardcover

Buch 7 von 45: WIDER Studies in Development Economics

Apffel-Marglin, Marglin; World Institute For Development Economic

 
9780198288848: Decolonizing Knowledge: From Development to Dialogue (W I D E R STUDIES IN DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0198288840 ISBN 13: 9780198288848
Verlag: OUP Oxford, 1996

Inhaltsangabe

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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Verlag
OUP Oxford
Erscheinungsdatum
1996
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0198288840
ISBN 13 
9780198288848
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
408
Herausgeber
Marglin Stephen A.
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