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

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Series: Anthropology, culture, and societyPublisher: London ; Sterling, Va. : Pluto Press, c2003Description: vii, 332 pages : ill. ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0745320074 (hardback)
  • 0745320066 (pbk.)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • GN380 .N44 2003
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
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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

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