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Author | : Frédérique Apffel Marglin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 293 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Developing countries |
ISBN | : |
This volume investigates the ways in which development strategies have affected traditional cultural values and social practices. Some of the positions advanced are controversial, all are imaginative and will provoke thought and reassessment in the field
Author | : Frédérique Apffel Marglin |
Publisher | : Clarendon Press |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 1990-08-23 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0198286945 |
This book addresses the role of knowledge in economic development and in resistance to development. It questions the conventional view that development is 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 internalized colonial elites who ruled before them. A prerequisite to decoupling Western technologies from these political entailments is to understand the conflict between different ways of knowing and valuing the world. This book differs from previous critiques of development because it addresses neither the strategy nor the tactics of development, but the very conception itself. Its focus is on knowledge and power in the development process. The book argues that `modern' knowledge wins out in the conflict with `traditional' knowledge not because of its superior cognitive power, but because of its prestige, associated both with the economic and political ascendancy of the West over the past 500 years and with the cultural history of the West itself.
Author | : Ruth Hayhoe |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 335 |
Release | : 2016-09-16 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1315480204 |
This work is a dialogue on alternative approaches to knowledge and higher education characteristic of the Western University. Western scholars approach these issues from the viewpoint of the challenges facing the university and Eastern contributors explore parallel issues in their societies.
Author | : Lawrence Pearsall Jacks |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1024 |
Release | : 1923 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : |
A quarterly review of religion, theology, and philosophy.
Author | : Schwartz, David |
Publisher | : IGI Global |
Total Pages | : 945 |
Release | : 2005-09-30 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 1591405742 |
"This encyclopedia is a research reference work documenting the past, present, and possible future directions of knowledge management"--Provided by publisher.
Author | : Ruth Zimmerling |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 330 |
Release | : 2005-07-19 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 9781402029868 |
"Exact but not exacting, this is a fine work of overview and analysis; it makes an excellent contribution to the literature on power and freedom." Philip Pettit, William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Politics, Princeton University "In this work, the author assumes the task of a ‘logical clean-up’ – an extremely valuable contribution to the promotion of scientific rigour and clarity in political scholarship." [This book] "gives the reader orientation in a conceptual jungle." [It is] "an excellent analysis of the relationships between normative and social power." Ernesto Garzón Valdés, Prof. em.
Author | : Seana McGovern |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780815328407 |
This book re-conceptualizes the field of international and comparative education by utilizing indigenous knowledge as a central component for altering the dominant, eurocentric social science research paradigm. Examples from indigenous sources of knowledge are juxtaposed to the dominant discourses on education and modern development in subaltern societies in order to provide scholars with alternative ways of viewing education and development and to shape how subaltern peoples are understood and represented in academic research. Bibliography. Index.
Author | : Henry Lin |
Publisher | : Academic Press |
Total Pages | : 859 |
Release | : 2012-07-09 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 0123869870 |
Hydropedology is a microcosm for what is happening in Soil Science. Once a staid discipline found in schools of agriculture devoted to increasing crop yield, soil science is transforming itself into an interdisciplinary mulch with great significance not only for food production but also climate change, ecology, preservation of natural resources, forestry, and carbon sequestration. Hydropedology brings together pedology (soil characteristics) with hydrology (movement of water) to understand and achieve the goals now associated with modern soil science. - The first book of its kind in the market - Highly interdisciplinary, involving new thinking and synergistic approaches - Stimulating case studies demonstrate the need for hydropedology in various practical applications - Future directions and new approaches are present to advance this emerging interdisciplinary science
Author | : Anna M. Agathangelou |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 253 |
Release | : 2009-06-02 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1135979944 |
This book provides a critical understanding of contemporary world politics by arguing that the neoliberal approach to international relations seduces many of us into investing our lives in projects of power and alienation. These projects offer few options for emancipation; consequently, many feel they have little choice but to retaliate against violence with more violence. The authors of this pioneering work articulate worldism as an alternative approach to world politics. It intertwines non-Western and Western traditions by drawing on Marxist, postcolonial, feminist and critical security approaches with Greek and Chinese theories of politics, broadly defined. The authors contend that contemporary world politics cannot be understood outside the legacies of these multiple worlds, including axes of power configured by gender, race, class, and nationality, which are themselves linked to earlier histories of colonizations and their contemporary formations. With fiction and poetry as exploratory methods, the authors build on their ‘multiple worlds’ approach to consider different sites of world politics, arguing that a truly emancipatory understanding of world politics requires more than just a shift in ways of thinking; above all, it requires a shift in ways of being. Transforming World Politics will be of vital interest to students and scholars of International Relations, Political Science, Postcolonial Studies, Social Theory, Women's Studies, Asian Studies, European Union and Mediterranean Studies, and Security Studies.
Author | : D. C. Nanjunda |
Publisher | : Mittal Publications |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 2010-01-01 |
Genre | : Anthropology |
ISBN | : 9788183243322 |
With reference to Karnataka, India.