Mark Hobart (ed.)

An Anthropological Critique of Development

The Growth of Ignorance
Herausgeber: Hobart, Mark

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This provocative volume, the latest in the EIDOS series, debunks the assumption that the application of Western knowledge in the implementation of economic and social development is an unqualified success. The author argues that it is unacceptable to dismiss problems encountered by development projects as the result of an inadequate implementation of knowledge. Rather, it suggests that failures stem from the constitution of knowledge and its object. By focusing 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 ultimately perpetuates ignorance.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 1993
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 220mm x 141mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 318g
• ISBN-13: 9780415079594
• ISBN-10: 0415079594
• Artikelnr.: 21327523

Autorenporträt

Mark Hobart is Senior Lecturer in Anthropology at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, and is a co-founder of EIDOS.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: the growth of ignorance? 1 Segmentary knowledge: a Whalsay
sketch 2 Processes and limitations of Dogon agricultural knowledge 3
Cultivation: knowledge or performance? 4 His lordship at the Cobblers' well
5 Is death the same everywhere? contexts of knowing and Doubting 6
Scapegoat and magic charm: law in development theory and Practice 7
Knowledge and ignorance in the practices of development Policy 8 The
negotiation of knowledge and ignorance in China's development strategy 9
Bridging two worlds: an ethnography of bureaucrat[1]peasant relations in
western Mexico 10 Potatoes and knowledge