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Who owns knowledge? Malik, Kenan http://www.kenanmalik.com/essays/index_knowledge.html Date Written:  21/09/07 Year Published:  2007   Resource Type:  Article/Report/Letter The resurgence of a Romantic view of culture poses a real menace to the free flow of knowledge and threatens to corral it into intellectual Bantustans. The ideas of free speech and open debate become meaningless if we fail to defend a universalist concept of knowledge or if we accept the notion of science as but a local view whose factual claims must defer to cultural and political needs. If scientific debate is constrained to express only sentiments with which people feel comfortable, culturally and politically, then science dies as the line between knowledge and myth becomes eroded. Topics Aboriginal History Archaeological Digs Archaeology History Knowledge Science

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