03467nam 2200661 a 450 991077847380332120230207230659.01-84964-111-0(CKB)1000000000802540(StDuBDS)AH22933410(SSID)ssj0000416751(PQKBManifestationID)11296962(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000416751(PQKBWorkID)10437536(PQKB)10691804(MiAaPQ)EBC3386509(Au-PeEL)EBL3386509(CaPaEBR)ebr10480141(CaONFJC)MIL987816(OCoLC)654103916(EXLCZ)99100000000080254020020213d2002 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtccrEmpire of knowledge[electronic resource] culture and plurality in the global economy /Vinay LalLondon ;Sterling, Va. Pluto Press20021 online resource (264 p.) Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-7453-1736-7 0-7453-1737-5 Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-246) and index.'Vinay Lal is a new and important presence in the world of scholars who question the intellectual and cultural assumptions that accompany the processes of modernisation, development and globalization.' Dipesh Chakrabarty, The University of ChicagoDuring the media frenzy over the Millennium celebrations, there was hardly any mention of the fact that, for the majority of the world, there was no Millennium at all. This linear understanding of time is a specifically Western - and Christian - concept. This is just one of many examples that Vinay Lal uses to demonstrate that nearly every idea which we take for granted in the west is part of a politics of ideas. Oppression is usually associated with class struggle and other forms of economic monopoly. Lal looks beyond this, deconstructing the cultural assumptions that have emerged alongside capitalism to offer a devastating critique of the politics of knowledge at the heart of all powerbroking.Other topics examined are the concept of 'development', which has provided a mandate for surreptitious colonisation; and the idea of the 'nation state', something we have lived with for no more than two centuries, yet is accepted without question. Linking this to the emergence of 'international governance' through the United Nations, the US, and imperial economic bodies (such as the IMF and WTO), Lal explains how such universalisms came to dominate the trajectory of Western thought.Social history20th centuryEconomic history20th centuryWorld politics20th centuryEqualityKnowledge, Sociology ofHistoryPhilosophyDeveloped countriesRelationsDeveloping countriesDeveloping countriesRelationsDeveloped countriesSocial historyEconomic historyWorld politicsEquality.Knowledge, Sociology of.HistoryPhilosophy.306/.09/04Lal Vinay1547705MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910778473803321Empire of knowledge3804218UNINA