Local Science Vs Global Science
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Local Science Vs Global Science

Approaches to Indigenous Knowledge in International Development

  1. 302 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Local Science Vs Global Science

Approaches to Indigenous Knowledge in International Development

About this book

While science has achieved a remarkable understanding of nature, affording humans an astonishing technological capability, it has led, through Euro-American global domination, to the muting of other cultural views and values, even threatening their continued existence. There is a growing realization that the diversity of knowledge systems demand respect, some refer to them in a conservation idiom as alternative information banks. The scientific perspective is only one. We now have many examples of the soundness of local science and practices, some previously considered "primitive" and in need of change, but this book goes beyond demonstrating the soundness of local science and arguing for the incorporation of others' knowledge in development, to argue that we need to look quizzically at the foundations of science itself and further challenge its hegemony, not only over local communities in Africa, Asia, the Pacific or wherever, but also the global community. The issues are large and the challenges are exciting, as addressed in this book, in a range of ethnographic and institutional contexts.

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Table of contents

  1. Local Science vs. Global Science
  2. Contents
  3. List of Figures
  4. List of Tables
  5. Acknowledgements
  6. List of Contributors
  7. Chapter 1. Local Science vs. Global Science
  8. Chapter 2. Traditional Medical Knowledge and Twenty-first Century Healthcare
  9. Chapter 3. Local and Scientific Understanding of Forest Diversity on Seram, Eastern Indonesia
  10. Chapter 4. ā€˜Indigenousā€™ and ā€˜Scientificā€™ Knowledge in Central Cape York Peninsula
  11. Chapter 5. On Knowing and Not Knowing
  12. Chapter 6. The Ashkui Project
  13. Chapter 7. Globalisation and the Construction of Western and Non-Western Knowledge
  14. Chapter 8. Science and Local Knowledge in Sri Lanka
  15. Chapter 9. Creating Natural Knowledge
  16. Chapter 10. Is Intellectual Property Protection a Good Idea?
  17. Chapter 11. Farmer Knowledge and Scientist Knowledge in Sustainable Agricultural Development
  18. Chapter 12. Forgotten Futures
  19. Chapter 13. Counting on Local Knowledge
  20. Index