An Anthropological Critique of Development: The Growth of Ignorance - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0415079586 ISBN 13 : 9780415079587

Editeur : Routledge, 1993

Synopsis

"An Anthropological Critique of Development" challenges the utopian view of Western knowledge as uniquely successful in its application to economic and social development. The contributors, all well-known European professional anthropologists with experience of development, provide an ethnographic and theoretical critique of Western knowledge in action. Making use of detailed ethnographic case studies from Europe, Africa, Asia and Latin America, they show how Western "experts", by disregarding indigenous knowledges in favour of an exclusive scientific knowledge, contribute to the growth of ignorance rather than the growth of knowledge.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Questioning the utopian image of western knowledge as a uniquely successful achievement in its application to economic and social development, this provocative volume, the latest in the EIDOS series, argues that it is unacceptable to dismiss problems encountered by development projects as the inadequate implementation of knowledge. Rather, it suggests that failures stem from the constitution of knowledge and its object.
By focussing on the ways in which agency in development is attributed to experts, thereby turning previously active participants into passive subjects or ignorant objects, the contributors claim that the hidden agenda to the aims of educating and improving the lives of those in the undeveloped world falls little short of perpetuating ignorance.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Routledge
• Date d'édition: 1993
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0415079586
• ISBN 13: 9780415079587
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 248
• Éditeur: Hobart Mark
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible