Negotiating Local Knowledge: Power and Identity in Development (Anthropology, Culture and Society) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0745320074 ISBN 13: 9780745320076

Publisher: Pluto Press, 2003

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 this title

Review

'Highly readable and provides good inspiration for people who either study or work within the vortex of local knowledge, power and politics' -- Development and Change

About the Author

Johan Pottier teaches in the Department of Anthropology at SOAS, University of London.

Edition details

• Publisher: Pluto Press
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0745320074
• ISBN 13: 9780745320076
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 344
• Editor: Pottier Johan, Bicker Alan, Sillitoe Paul