Decolonizing Knowledge : From Development to Dialogue

Marglin Apffel-Marglin

ISBN 10: 0198288840 / ISBN 13: 9780198288848

Published by OUP Oxford, 1996

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nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - Development failures, environmental degradation and social fragmentation can no longer be regarded as side effects of `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's as the future of the `third'. This book argues that the linear evolutionary paradigm of development that comes out of 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, the knowledge of Mexican and Indian peasants - propose a pluralistic vision and decolonization of knowledge: the replacement of one-way transfers of knowledge and technology by dialogue and mutual learning.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Decolonizing Knowledge : From Development to Dialogue
• Publisher: OUP Oxford
• Publication Date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0198288840
• ISBN 13: 9780198288848
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 240W x 161H x 26D millimeters 240 millimeters width by 161 millimeters height by 26 millimeters depth
• Weight: 775 grams

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Synopsis

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

Frédérique Appfel Marglin is at Smith College, Massachusetts. Stephen A. Marglin is at Harvard University.