How can we push for the relevance of local knowledge in development initiatives in the midst of the plethora of Western innovations and globalization? Can Nature journal accept research findings based on local knowledge epistemology?
Very interesting. Can you provide an actual example to start the conversation?
Many thanks, Peter, for your expositions. Much appreciated! I once published a viewpoint in Development in Practice 25(8) in 2015 titled 'Twenty reasons why local knowledge will remain relevant to development'. Perhaps we can find some answers in that seemingly 'polemic' paper.
As for Stanley who wants me to expatiate on the question or rather provide some particular example, I'm afraid, I don't think I have any specific example. But I was just wondering whether if my article will find any relevance in the eye of the editor of Nature if I decide to publish some findings on indigenous technologies, say in iron ore refinning, in that journal (i.e. Nature or Science) .
Two cases from Mexico, hope they are useful!
Article Local Knowledge Helps Select Species for Forest Restoration ...
Article Do pharmaceuticals displace local knowledge and use of medic...
Here is an example from Quebec (eastern Canada):
Article Moose (Alces americanus) habitat suitability in temperate de...
I also reviewed several examples from across the world in a chapter entitled "Indigenous Forest Knowledge" in the Routledge Handbook of Forest Ecology:
https://www.routledge.com/Routledge-Handbook-of-Forest-Ecology/Peh-Corlett-Bergeron/p/book/9780415735452
Jose, the abandonment of local medicine has an historical basis in the expanding status of the medical profession, that while employing the same cures they, as a group linked by similar or the same perceptions and education, neuralised local medicine. The cure rate of local usage is the same or better than authorised medicines.
I am please to share with you the paper:
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