Negotiating Local Knowledge Power and Identity in Development

Pottier, Johan (Editor)/ Bicker, Alan (Editor)/ Sillitoe, Paul (Editor)

ISBN 10: 0745320066 / ISBN 13: 9780745320069

Published by Pluto Pr, 2003

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332 pages. 8.25x5.50x0.75 inches. In Stock.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Negotiating Local Knowledge Power and Identity in Development
• Publisher: Pluto Pr
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0745320066
• ISBN 13: 9780745320069
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.77 kilograms

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Synopsis

The contributors to this volume offer an original approach to debates about indigenous knowledge. Concentrating on the political economy of knowledge construction and dissemination, they look at the variety of ways in which development policies are received and constructed, to reveal the ways in which local knowledges are appropriated and recast, either by local elites or by development agencies. Until now, debates about indigenous knowledge have largely been conducted in terms of agricultural and environmental issues such as bio-piracy and gene patenting. The contributors to this volume break new ground by opening up the theoretical debate to include areas such as post-war traumatic stress counselling, representations of nuclear capability, architecture, mining, and the politics of eco-tourism. Their findings have important implications for anthropology, development studies and other related disciplines.

About the Author

Johan Pottier teaches in the Department of Anthropology at SOAS, University of London.Paul Sillitoe is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Durham.Alan Bicker is at the Dept of Anthropology, University of Kent at Canterbury.