An Anthropological Critique of Development: The Growth of Ignorance (Eidos (european Inter-university Development Opportunities Study Group) Ser.)
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- Synopsis
- 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.
- Copyright:
- 1993
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9781134896318
- Related ISBNs:
- 9780203410219, 9781138145511, 9781138145511, 9780415079594, 9780415079594
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Date of Addition:
- 07/01/20
- Copyrighted By:
- Mark Hobart
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Nonfiction, Social Studies
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- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.
- Edited by:
- Mark Hobart