ABSTRACT
The end of the twentieth century was marked by an exponential growth of knowledge and power networks, along with an unprecedented scale of poverty. As the cognitive gap between global agencies and local societies steadily grew, the way knowledge is routinely extracted from local people became increasingly questioned. At stake is the model of development by external injection—a model unique in history—that tries to address inequality and poverty on a world scale. The nature, object, purpose, and integrity of science as a human agency is also in question.
