Negotiating local knowledge : power and identity in development / edited by Johan Pottier, Alan Bicker, and Paul Sillitoe.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pottier, Johan, editor.

Bicker, Alan, editor.

Sillitoe, Paul, 1949- editor.

Series:

Anthropology, culture, and society.

Anthropology, culture, and society

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indigenous peoples--Politics and government.

Indigenous peoples.

Political anthropology.

Ethnophilosophy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (336 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

London ; Sterling, Virginia : Pluto Press, 2003.

Summary:

This is 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 knowledge 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. This collection breaks 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.

Contents:

Contents: 1. Negotiating local knowledge: An introduction / Johan Potter

2. A possible explanation for the lack of explanation: Or, 'why the master builder can't explain what he knows' (Yemen) / Trevor H.J. Marchand

3. Explosive narratives: The articulation of 'nuclear knowledge' in Mumbai, India / Raminder Kaur

4. Knowledge interfaces and practices of negotiation: cases from a women's group in Bolivia and an oil refinery in Wales, United Kingdom / Alberto Arce and Eleanor Fisher

5. Anti-social 'social development'? Governmentality, indigenousness and the DFID approach on Montserrat / Jonathan Skinner

6. 'All been washed away now': tradition, change and indigenous knowledge in a Queensland Aboriginal land claim / Benjamin Richard Smith

7. Managing natural resources in Eastern Algarve, Portugal: an assessment of the policy uses of local knowledge(s) / Manuel João Ramos, Antonio Medeiros, Pedro Sena, Sofia Tomaz and Gonzalo Praza

8. Interfaces of knowledge: the revival of temples in West Hunan, China / Mary Rack

9. The global flow of knowledge on war trauma: the role of the 'Cinnamon Garden culture' in Sri Lanka / Alex Genti-Pillen

10. Modern information warfare versus empirical knowledge: the international framing of 'the crisis' in Eastern Zaire, 1996 / Johan Pottier

Pacific ring of fire: Negotiation and.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781783719273

1783719273

9781783719266

1783719265