Negotiating local knowledge:power and identity in development

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Bibliographic Details
Group Author: Bicker Alan; Sillitoe Paul; Pottier Johan
Published: Pluto Press,
Publisher Address: London Sterling, Va.
Publication Dates: 2003.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Series: Anthropology, culture, and society
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Carrier Form: vii, 332 p.: ill. ; 22 cm.
ISBN: 0745320074 (hardback)
0745320066 (pbk.)
Index Number: D562
CLC: D562
C912.4
Call Number: D562/N384
Contents: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 / Jona