Good questions, I think. I think you have to value local knowledge, offer
(in a non-colonizing, non-patronizing way) information, perspectives that
can help, and you have to watch out you're not "helping" by hammering your
perspective as the only one.
And...as far as imperialism "tainting" local perspective, I think when
prior ways of knowing/relating are held up as a possibility and valued,
there are ways of getting beyond it. However, I think everyone's
complicity has to be examined. For example, if there's an area which has
endangered wildlife and dispossed indigenous folks is it because the area
has been made into a park for mostly well-off visitors to "experience" the
wildlife? In other words, what's our role in things?
Arlene
On Wed, 3 Mar 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> my question would be this .... when people have moved from a fourth world
> perspective to a third world perspective, to a very colonialized situation,
> especially with development mindstate, etc, are the old ecologies still
> online? or has the seed of imperialism taken heart? what do we do about this?
> collectivley of course, working together in dialgoue in a grassroots manner
> rather than as a center of policy exporting its policies elsewehre
>
> (un)leash
>
