LEADER 03467nam 2200661 a 450 001 9910778473803321 005 20230207230659.0 010 $a1-84964-111-0 035 $a(CKB)1000000000802540 035 $a(StDuBDS)AH22933410 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000416751 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11296962 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000416751 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10437536 035 $a(PQKB)10691804 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3386509 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3386509 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10480141 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL987816 035 $a(OCoLC)654103916 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000802540 100 $a20020213d2002 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aEmpire of knowledge$b[electronic resource] $eculture and plurality in the global economy /$fVinay Lal 210 $aLondon ;$aSterling, Va. $cPluto Press$d2002 215 $a1 online resource (264 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-7453-1736-7 311 $a0-7453-1737-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 237-246) and index. 330 $b'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. 606 $aSocial history$y20th century 606 $aEconomic history$y20th century 606 $aWorld politics$y20th century 606 $aEquality 606 $aKnowledge, Sociology of 606 $aHistory$xPhilosophy 607 $aDeveloped countries$xRelations$zDeveloping countries 607 $aDeveloping countries$xRelations$zDeveloped countries 615 0$aSocial history 615 0$aEconomic history 615 0$aWorld politics 615 0$aEquality. 615 0$aKnowledge, Sociology of. 615 0$aHistory$xPhilosophy. 676 $a306/.09/04 700 $aLal$b Vinay$01547705 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910778473803321 996 $aEmpire of knowledge$93804218 997 $aUNINA