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Causes of parochial status in international knowledge production

Causes of parochial status of Croatia in international knowledge production are analyzed from two different perspectives. Each one is represented through works of different authors, scientific and other who wrote on the topic. First perspective is technocratic and it regards knowledge as a new source of economic development. The most popular notion in this perspective is “knowledge societies”. A bulk of scientific mainstream in Croatia shares this perspective. Author puts forward advantages and disadvantages of the technocratic position as regards its explanations of the Croatian lagging in the international production of knowledge. Author applies an analogous approach with regard to the second perspective, i.e. the postcolonial theory which proclaims the “knowledge society” being a new mode of the Western cultural imperialism. In conclusion author reflects about possibilities of creating an egalitarian knowledge society. He attempts to identify such possibilities through analyzing types of knowledge generated through cooperative work – first of all, knowledge needed for large-scale employment. To this purpose, he discusses about possibilities of retesting and renewal of some old occurrences of holistic knowledge

knowledge production, Croatia, “knowledge society”, cultural imperialism

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