Local knowledge in the environment-development discourse: From dichotomies to situated knowledges. Nygren, A. Critique of Anthropology, 19(3):267–288, 1999. 1abstract bibtex This article takes a critical look at the various approaches representing local knowledge as a scapegoat for underdevelopment or as a panacea for sustainability, these two representations characterizing the conventional environment-development discourse. The static oppositions of local versus universal knowledge are challenged by establishing more diversified models to analyse the relationships of heterogeneous knowledges. The study emphasizes the complex articulation of knowledge repertoires by drawing on an ethnographic case study among migrant peasants in southeastern Nicaragua. Knowledge production is seen as a process of social negotiation involving multiple actors and complex power relations. The article underlines the issue of situated knowledges as one of the major challenges in developing anthropology as an approach that subjects fixed dichotomies between subject and object, fact and value, and the rational and the practical, to critical reconstruction.
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title = {Local knowledge in the environment-development discourse: {From} dichotomies to situated knowledges},
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shorttitle = {Local knowledge in the environment-development discourse},
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journal = {Critique of Anthropology},
author = {Nygren, A.},
year = {1999},
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keywords = {12 Ignorance in other disciplinary fields, Hybridization, Ignorance in anthropology and ethnology, Local knowledge, Migrant peasants, Nicaragua, PRINTED (Fonds papier), Situated knowledges, Traditional and modern},
pages = {267--288},
}
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