Decolonizing Knowledge
Frederique Apffel-Marglin
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Decolonizing Knowledge
by Frederique Apffel-Marglin, Stephen A. Marglin
Published
1996
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pages
398
ISBN-13
9781280811173
Description
Development failures, environmental degradation, and social fragmentation can no longer be regarded as side-effects or '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' as the future of the 'third'. This book argues that the linear evolutionary paradigm of development that comes out of the 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, and the knowledge of Mexican and Indian peasants - propose a pluralistic vision and a decolonization of knowledge: the replacement of one-way transfers of knowledge and technology by dialogue and mutual learning.
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Who is the author of Decolonizing Knowledge?
Decolonizing Knowledge was written by Frederique Apffel-Marglin, Stephen A. Marglin.
When was Decolonizing Knowledge published?
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