By Vanessa C.M. Chio
Drawing on contemporary deconstructions in anthropology, postcolonial reports, and important sociology, this publication situates and explores the phenomenon of foreign wisdom transfers in the context of globalization.
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Accordingly, much of my time at the multinationals was spent documenting and taking note of the particular constitutions of this knowledge, the documentary and mediatory forms it takes, when and how these were used, its connection to official goals, the agents or practices involved in its deployment and so on. Towards the end of fieldwork, a “profile” making up this focus on quality management was configured which included information on (1) the activities such as training events, (2) the administrative or documentary practices like planning, tracking or reliance on categories of evaluation, (3) the relations between institution to institution, institution and knowledge, knowledge and management, (4) the forms of knowledge, whether managerial, economic and/or technical, and (5) the conceptual or cultural filters such as efficiency, productivity and so on locating it as a discourse and an object of transfer.
These writings are significant since these scholars already question in their writings the nature, process and feature of how we know and what we do in the name of development in particular, and knowledge construction in general. , presenting], the underdevelopment of the Third World to us. This focus on interconnections and relations between knowledge and power are central to Smith’s (1987) very constitution of institutional ethnography itself. ” Concurrently, ethnography is less a concern over methods than it is “an exploration, description and analysis of this complex of relations” (:160).
Experience over the last three decades has clearly shown that the constraints to development have little to do with overall availability of resources. Rather, the most serious constraints relate to the organization, management, and utilization of available resources and the opportunities for more balanced development (1989:xvi–xvii, emphasis mine). As with the analysis offered by Israel (1987), the problem of development is not so much a question about the efficacy of modernization or development knowledge, be it concept or model.