Negotiating Local Knowledge: Power and Identity in Development (Anthropology, Culture and Society) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0745320066 ISBN 13: 9780745320069

Verlag: Pluto Press, 2003

Inhaltsangabe

Book by Pottier Johan Bicker Alan Sillitoe Paul

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Críticas

'Highly readable and provides good inspiration for people who either study or work within the vortex of local knowledge, power and politics' -- Development and Change

Reseña del editor

The contributors to this volume offer an original approach to debates about indigenous knowledge. Concentrating on the political economy of knowledge construction and dissemination, they look at the variety of ways in which development policies are received and constructed, to reveal the ways in which local knowledges are appropriated and recast, either by local elites or by development agencies.

Until now, debates about indigenous knowledge have largely been conducted in terms of agricultural and environmental issues such as bio-piracy and gene patenting. The contributors to this volume break new ground by opening up the theoretical debate to include areas
such as post-war traumatic stress counselling, representations of nuclear capability, architecture, mining, and the politics of eco-tourism.

Their findings have important implications for anthropology, development studies and other related disciplines.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Pluto Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0745320066
• ISBN 13: 9780745320069
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 344
• Herausgeber: Pottier Johan