This is an original approach to debates about indigenous knowledge. Concentrating on the political economy of knowledge construction and dissemination, they look at the variety of ways in which development policies are received and constructed, to reveal the ways in which local knowledge are appropriated and recast, either by local elites or by development agencies. Until now, debates about indigenous knowledge have largely been conducted in terms of agricultural and environmental issues such as bio-piracy and gene patenting. This collection breaks new ground by opening up the theoretical debate to include areas such as post-war traumatic stress counselling, representations of nuclear capability, architecture, mining, and the politics of eco-tourism.

1. Negotiating Local Knowledge: An Introduction by Johan Pottier 2. A Possible Explanation For The Lack Of Explanation: Or, Why The Master Builder Cant Explain What He Knows (Yemen) by Trevor H.J. Marchand 3. Explosive Narratives: The Articulation Of Nuclear Knowledge In Mumbai, India by Raminder Kaur 4. Knowledge Interfaces And Practices Of Negotiation: Cases From A Womens Group In Bolivia And An Oil Refinery In Wales, United Kingdom by Alberto Arce And Eleanor Fisher 5. Anti-Social Social Development? Governmentality, Indigenousness And The Dfid Approach On Montserrat by Jonathan Skinner 6. All Been Washed Away Now: Tradition, Change And Indigenous Knowledge In A Queensland Aboriginal Land Claim by Benjamin Richard Smith 7. Managing Natural Resources In Eastern Algarve, Portugal: An Assessment Of The Policy Uses Of Local Knowledge(S) by Manuel João Ramos, António Medeiros, Pedro Sena And Gonçalo Praça 8. Interfaces Of Knowledge: The Revival Of Temples In West Hunan, China by Mary Rack 9. The Global Flow Of Knowledge On War Trauma: The Role Of The Cinnamon Garden Culture In Sri Lanka by Alex Argenti-Pillen 10. Modern Information Warfare Versus Empirical Knowledge: The International Framing Of The Crisis In Eastern Zaire, 1996 by Johan Pottier 11. Playing On The Pacific Ring Of Fire: Negotiation And Mining In Papua New Guinea by Paul Sillitoe And Robin A. Wilson 12. From Seduction To Miscommunication: The Confession And Presentation Of Local Knowledge In Participatory Development (Batak, The Philippines) by Dario Novellino 13. Silencing The Nile (Uganda) by Stan Frankland Index