This conference will explore these opportunities and their implications. They touch upon many contemporary issues, including some difficult political ones. The conference will challenge the stark 'local' and 'global' polarity, and question knowledge making processes that separate technology from power and politics. There is a need to investigate portrayals of 'indigenous knowledge', and the 'production of locality', as countering universalising western science. Recent anthropological concern with the cultural and historical specificity of development policy casts scientific discourse and 'global knowledge' as more contingent and 'local'.
Anthropology has a wealth of experience and much to offer the indigenous knowledge movement.
The production of identity and locality in the documentation of local knowledges. The relation between the discourse on others' knowledge and colonial governance as well as development thinking. The need to critique monoliths of 'development' and explore different traditions of development, colonial experiences and regional modernities. The deadline for papers was January 31st. I am interested in attending the ASA Conference in 2000 at SOAS in London.