Knowledge as Relational: Reflections on Knowledge in International Development

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David Mosse (b.1959) is Professor of Social Anthropology at SOAS University of London. He studied social anthropology at Oxford University from where he received a DPhil in 1986. He worked for Oxfam as Representative for South India in Bangalore, as a social development advisor and consultant for the UK Department for International Development (DFID) and other international development agencies. He is the author of Cultivating Development: An Ethnography of Aid Policy and Practice (2005), The Rule of Water: Statecraft, Ecology and Collective Action in South India (2003), The Saint in the Banyan Tree: Caste and Christianity in India (2012), and several edited volumes on development including Adventures in Aidland (2011), The Aid Effect (2005, with D. Lewis) and Development Brokers and Translators (2006, with D. Lewis). A current collaborative project, ‘Caste Out of Development’ examines the continuing significance of caste in contemporary development encounters.

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¹I owe this phrasing of the dilemma of knowledge in development with its reference to Leder to my colleague Kit (Christopher) Davis (personal communication).