Negotiating Local Knowledge Power and Identity in Development

Pottier, Johan (Editor)/ Bicker, Alan (Editor)/ Sillitoe, Paul (Editor)

ISBN 10: 0745320066 / ISBN 13: 9780745320069

Verlag: Pluto Pr, 2003

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332 pages. 8.25x5.50x0.75 inches. In Stock.

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Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Negotiating Local Knowledge Power and Identity in Development
• Verlag: Pluto Pr
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2003
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0745320066
• ISBN-13: 9780745320069
• Einband: Paperback
• Zustand: Brand New

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Inhaltsangabe

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.

Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Johan Pottier is Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at SOAS, University of London. He is the author of Anthropology of Food(Polity Press, 1999), Re-Imagining Rwanda (Cambridge University Press, 2002), Negotiating Local Knowledge (Pluto Press, 2003) and the co-editor of Researching Violence in Africa (Brill, 2011).

Alan Bicker is Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the School of Anthropology and Conservation, University of Kent at Canterbury. He is co-editor of Negotiating Local Knowledge (Pluto Press, 2003).

Paul Sillitoe is Professor of Anthropology at Durham University and former Shell Chair in Sustainable Development at Qatar University. He is co-editor of Negotiating Local Knowledge (Pluto Press, 2003).