"If, as [Edward] Said suggests, Western knowledge is fundamentally a means of perpetuating its cultural hegemony over the world, and if also - as [Ranajit] Guha and others believe - no Western critique can ever fully escape the dominant consciousness within which it was formulated, then, perforce, much greater attention needs to be paid to non-Western knowledge and local environmental management practices (Forsyth, 1996; Agrawal, 1995)."
— Prof. Greg Bankoff, “Rendering the World Unsafe: ‘Vulnerability’ as a Western Discourse” (via rethinkcapitalism)
(via sociolab)
