An Anthropological Critique of Development: The Growth of Ignorance (repost)
Mark Hobart, "An Anthropological Critique of Development: The Growth of Ignorance"
Publisher: Routledge | ISBN: 0415079594 | 1993 | PDF | 248 pages | 4.1 MB
Publisher: Routledge | ISBN: 0415079594 | 1993 | PDF | 248 pages | 4.1 MB
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.