Power and interests in developing knowledge societies exogenous and endogenous discourses in contention

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Beteiligte: Mansell, Robin (VerfasserIn)
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2010
Teil von: Power and interests in developing knowledge societies; Erschienen in: IMK Working Paper, 2010, number 11, 37 p. [ISSN: 1998-4340]
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"The first opening quotation signals a belief in the transformative potential of the materiality of technology in line with a strongly Western-centric and universal idea of economic growth and development. The second highlights the need to conceive alternatives to the knowledge system originating mainly, but not exclusively, in the global "North". "North" refers not principally to geographical orientation but to theories and practices which draw their insights from the project of modernity. The arguments of those scholars and practitioners who are critical of this predominant paradigm of change are the least visible in discussions about the role of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in reducing poverty (Hamelink, 2004; Thompson, 2008). Escobar argues that ― development has relied exclusively on one knowledge system, namely the modern Western one. The dominance of this knowledge system has dictated the marginalization of non-Western knowledge systems" (Escobar, 1995: 13). In this paper, I use the texts of prominent United Nations and World Bank reports to illustrate how this process of marginalisation is achieved through recourse to social science models of the role of technology in economic and social change." [Information des Anbieters]

Introduction; Exogenous and endogenous development models; Knowledge society models for development; Modulating the models; Multible knowledge paradigms; Conclusion; References