Review: "Indigenous and Scientific Knowledge: some critical comments"
When it comes to talk about Human Security (HS), "people" would quickly appear in the center of the discussion. However, most of the times "people" looks just like an empty word, a rhetoric must but a mystery in its interpretation. In order to advance the understanding and reaches of the HS approach, it will be meaningful to review some of the elements that lurk inside that huge black box.
One of the first issues that jump to sight once community is studied from a developmental perspective is "Indigenous Knowledge". That is to say, the knowledge held by the communities of the addressed territory. In this short and neat article, Professor Agrawal identifies three ways in which academics differentiate indigenous from Western knowledge, and poses a critique to their validity and consequences. In Summary, the arguments are as follow:
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