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Decolonizing Knowledge - From Development to Dialogue (Hardcover, New)
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Decolonizing Knowledge - From Development to Dialogue (Hardcover, New)
Series: WIDER Studies in Development Economics
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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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