Submitted by Cüneyt Budak

Think Global, Act Local or Think Local, Act Global? Knowledge Production in the Global Agora

Architecture News - Dec 09, 2007 - 21:02   9437 views

A question about `inclusiveness´ in these transnational policy communities is their club-like and elite character. Involvement is usually limited to recognised stakeholders and experts in the policy field. Participation is informally restricted and regulated by the network to exclude spiritual, peasant, or protest knowledges. `Indeed, people who construct knowledge in secular, anthropocentric, techno-scientific, instrumental terms have generally exercised the greatest power in global spaces´ . Moreover, participation can be costly. Access to global public policy networks requires time, commitment and resources. Many developing country knowledge agencies do not have sufficient resources to devote to national policy deliberations let alone global dialogues." 
www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/csgr/research/keytopic/other/global.pdf