Grassroots Innovations for Inclusive Development: Need for a Paradigmatic Shift
Author(s) -
Vipin Kumar,
Vijaya Sherry Chand,
Liyan Zhang,
Catherine A. Odora Hoppers,
Wei Zhang,
Marianne Esders,
Anil K. Gupta
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
vikalpa the journal for decision makers
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.241
H-Index - 23
eISSN - 2395-3799
pISSN - 0256-0909
DOI - 10.1177/0256090920130307
Subject(s) - grassroots , paradigm shift , political science , sociology , epistemology , philosophy , law , politics
Please follow the link to the website of the journal at the top of this item to view the full-textWe don’t have to look far to see that colonialism,
modernity, and the disciplines that accompany
them provided the framework for the organized subjugation
of the cultural, scientific, and economic life of many
on the African continent and the Third World in general.
This subjugation extended in a spectrum from people’s
“way of seeing”, their “way of being”, their way of negotiating
life processes in different environments, their survival techniques, to technologies for
ecologically-sensitive exploitation of
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