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Local Knowledge in the Environment–Development Discourse: From dichotomies to situated knowledges

Nygren, Anja·1999·Critique of Anthropology
DOI 10.1177/0308275x9901900304
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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 environ-ment–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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Authors
Nygren, A.
Affiliations
University of Helsinki (FI)
Corresponding author
Nygren, Anja
ORCID
Nygren, Anja
Venue
Critique of Anthropology
Publisher
SAGE Publications
Published
1999-09
Volume
19
Issue
3
Pages
267-288
ISSN
  • 0308-275X (ISSN-L)
  • 1460-3721
DOI
10.1177/0308275x9901900304
OpenAlex
W2082060221
Cited by
317
References
72
Citations by year
2026: 12 · 2025: 13 · 2024: 10 · 2023: 11 · 2022: 12 · 2021: 17 · 2020: 16 · 2019: 12 · 2018: 27 · 2017: 12 · 2016: 12 · 2015: 19 · 2014: 11 · 2013: 12 · 2012: 8
FWCI
7.15
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
journals.sagepub.com/page/policies/text-and-data-mining-license (tdm)
Locations
Critique of Anthropology (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Anthropology › Anthropological Studies and Insights
  • Social Sciences › Anthropology › Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Agriculture
  • Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Ecology › Environmental and Cultural Studies in Latin America and Beyond
Keywords
local knowledge, underdevelopment, sustainability, knowledge heterogeneity, knowledge production, power relations, situated knowledge, fact-value dichotomy

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