| Dominating Knowledge: Development, Culture, and Resistance Contributor(s): Marglin, Frédérique Apffel (Editor), Marglin, Stephen A. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0198286945 ISBN-13: 9780198286943 Publisher: Clarendon Press OUR PRICE: $185.25 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: October 1990 Annotation: This book addresses the role of knowledge in economic development. It questions the conventional view that developmentis 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 internalizedWestern knowledge and values, as by the colonial elites who ruled before them. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Business & Economics | Development - Economic Development |
| Dewey: 338.9 |
| LCCN: 89070952 |
| Series: Wider Studies in Development Economics |
| Physical Information: 0.81" H x 6" W x 9" (1.37 lbs) 306 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Developing World |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Investigating the ways development strategies have affected traditional cultural values and social practices, this scholarly and imaginative collection of essays critically examines the role of Western technology in development. The contributors include S. Marglin, A. Appadurai, A. Nandy, S. Viswanathan, F. Apffel Marglin, and T. Banuri. |