Decolonizing Knowledge: From Development to Dialogue

by Frédérique Apffel-Marglin

Development failures, environmental degradation and social fragmentation can no longer be regarded as "side effects." They are the toxic consequences of pretensions that the modern Western view of knowledge is a universal neutral view, applicable to all people at all times. This work argues that the linear evolutionary paradigm of development emerging from the modern Western view of knowledge is a contemporary form of colonialism. The work proposes...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198288840
• ISBN13: 9780198288848
• Release Date: July 1996
• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Length: 406 Pages
• Weight: 1.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"