Dominating Knowledge: Development, Culture, and Resistance

ISBN-13: 9780198286943 / Angielski / Twarda / 1990 / 312 str.

Frederique Apffel Marglin; Stephen A. Marglin; Lal Jayawardena

Opis

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.

Recenzje

`is there something in these essays which other than providing stimulating intellectual thought, has some bearing on how we can live and shape our lives better. I believe there is' Times of India

Spis treści

Stephen A. Marglin: Towards decolonization of the mind; Tariq Banuri: Development and the politics of knowledge: A critical interpretation of the social role of modernization; Tariq Banuri: Modernization and its discontents: A cultural perspective on the theories of development; Frederique Apffel Marglin: Smallpox in two systems of knowledge; Ashis Nandy, & Shiv Visvanathan: Modern medicine and its non-modern critics: A study in discourse; Arjun Appadurai: Technology and the reproduction of values in rural Western India; Stephen A. Marglin: Losing touch: The cultural conditions of worker accommodation and resistance