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UNINA9910784951403321 |
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Autore |
Lushaba Lwazi |
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Titolo |
Development as modernity, modernity as development [[electronic resource] /] / Lwazi Siyabonga Lushaba |
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Dakar, : Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa, c2009 |
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1-282-90132-X |
9786612901324 |
2-86978-393-0 |
2-86978-349-3 |
2-86978-302-7 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (80 p.) |
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Interventions series Development as modernity, modernity as development |
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Modernization |
Economic development - Africa |
Economic development - Social aspects |
Africa Social conditions |
Africa Politics and government |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 70-72). |
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Front Cover; Title Page; Contents; About the Author; Introduction; The Enlightenment and Modernity; Mapping the Genealogy of Modernity; Early Modernity; Capitalist Modernity; Hyper-Modernity (Global Capitalism); Beyond Western Modernity; Conclusion; Notes; References; Mapping the Genealogy of Modernity |
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This book analyses the impact of the Western idea of 'modernity' on development and underdevelopment in Africa. It traces the genealogy of the Western idea of modernity from European Enlightenment concepts of the universal nature of human history and development, and shows how this idea was used to justify the Western exploitation and oppression of Africa. It argues that contemporary development, theory and practice is a continuation of the Enlightenment project and that Africa can only achieve real development by rejecting Western |
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modernity and inventing its own forms of modernity. The book i |
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UNINA9910785204503321 |
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Autore |
Berdou Evangelia |
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Titolo |
Organization in open source communities : at the crossroads of the gift and market economy / / Evangelia Berdou |
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New York : , : Routledge, , 2011 |
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1-136-97324-9 |
1-136-97325-7 |
1-282-91332-8 |
9786612913327 |
0-203-85197-8 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (164 p.) |
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Collana |
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Routledge studies in innovation, organization and technology ; ; 15 |
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Open source software - Economic aspects |
Open source software - Social aspects |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Tables; Acronyms; Foreword; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; 2 Technologies of Communities and Peer Production: Disentangling Power Relations in FL/OSS Development; 3 FL/OSS as an Object of Research: Methodological and Disciplinary Issues; 4 Commercial Involvement and FL/OSS; 5 The Community, the Firm and the Two Economies; 6 Learning and the Division of Labour in FL/OSS; 7 The Story So Far: Technologies of Communities and Peer Production; 8 Conclusions; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
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This book contributes new insights into the organization of free/open source (F/OS) software communities by examining the links between learning, division of labour and commercialization, demonstrating the need for a synthesis of work on both community organization and cooperation to understand F/OS community dynamics. These aspects are examined in the light of detailed case studies of the GNOME and |
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