Dominating Knowledge
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Dominating Knowledge by Frdrique Marglin
This book addresses the role of knowledge in economic development. It questions the conventional view that developmentis the application of superior knowledge to the problems of poor countries, and that resistance to development comes out of ignorance and superstition. It argues instead that the basis of resistance is the fear that the material benefits of Western technologies can be enjoyed only at the price of giving up indigenous ways of knowing and valuing the world, an idea fostered as much by present-day elites, who have internalizedWestern knowledge and values, as by the colonial elites who ruled before them.
`highlights the clash between traditional and modern knowledge in a number of highly illustrative cases.. In a brilliant study on ways of dealing with small-pox, Frederique Apffel-Marglin confronts the hardest piece of Western arrogance - medical knowledge' The Ecologist
`is there something in these essays which other than providing stimulating intellectual thought, has some bearing on how we can live and shape our lives better. I believe there is' Times of India
`is there something in these essays which other than providing stimulating intellectual thought, has some bearing on how we can live and shape our lives better. I believe there is' Times of India
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| ISBN 13 | 9780198286943 |
| ISBN 10 | 0198286945 |
| Titel | Dominating Knowledge |
| Autor | Frdrique Marglin |
| Serie | Wider Studies In Development Economics |
| Buchzustand | Nicht verfügbar |
| Bindungsart | Hardback |
| Verlag | Oxford University Press |
| Erscheinungsjahr | 1990-08-23 |
| Seitenanzahl | 306 |
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