Decolonizing Knowledge
From Development to Dialogue
ISBN13: 9780198288848ISBN10: 0198288840
Hardback,
408 pages
Jun 1996,
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Description
Development failures, environmental degradation and social fragmentation can no longer be regarded as "side effects." 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. This work argues that the linear evolutionary paradigm of development emerging from the modern Western view of knowledge is a contemporary form of colonialism. The work proposes a pluralistic vision and a decolonization of knowledge: the replacement of one-way transfers of knowledge and technology by dialogue and mutual learning. It will be of interest to scholars of development studies, sociology, and anthropology.About the Author(s)
Edited by Frédérique Apffel-Marglin, Professor of Anthropology, Smith College, Massachusetts, and Stephen A. Marglin, Barker Professor of Economics, Harvard University
