Venue:Haskel Room
Discussion Leader: Neela Saxena
"This article presents the work of a group of indigenous intellectuals in Peru who have formed an NGO called PRATEC (Proyecto Andino de Tecnologias Campesinas). PRATEC has created a postgraduate course, accredited in two Peruvian universities, aimed mostly at technocrats of rural development. That course not only teaches indigenous Andean knowledges and practices but also attempts to deconstruct the claim to universality of dominant modern Western knowledges. The author has met many graduates of PRATEC’s course in Peru and been able to appreciate the transformative power of that course. This experiment is of potential interest in any postcolonial situation. "
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