An Anthropological Critique of Development - The Growth of Ignorance (Hardcover)

Questioning the utopian image of western knowledge as a uniquely successful achievement in its application to economic and social development, this provocative volume, the latest in the EIDOS series, argues that it is unacceptable to dismiss problems encountered by development projects as the inadequate implementation of knowledge. Rather, it suggests that failures stem from the constitution of knowledge and its object. By focussing on the ways in which agency in development is attributed to experts, thereby turning previously active participants into passive subjects or ignorant objects, the contributors claim that the hidden agenda to the aims of educating and improving the lives of those in the undeveloped world falls little short of perpetuating ignorance.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	July 2016
First published:	1993
Editors:	Mark Hobart
Dimensions:	216 x 138mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	248
ISBN-13:	978-1-138-14551-1
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Development studies Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > General
LSN:	1-138-14551-3
Barcode:	9781138145511

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