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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Arturo Escobar |
| ISBN: | 0691034095 9780691034096 0691001022 9780691001029 |
| OCLC Number: | 30737398 |
| Description: | ix, 290 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Preface vii -- Chapter 1 Introduction: development and the anthropology of modernity -- Chapter 2 The problematization of poverty: the tale of three worlds and development -- Chapter 3 Economics and the space of development: tales of growth and capital -- Chapter 4 The dispersion of power: tales of food and hunger -- Chapter 5 Power and visibility: tales of peasants, women, and the environment -- Chapter 6 Conclusion: imagining a postdevelopment era. |
| Series Title: | Princeton studies in culture/power/history. |
| Other Titles: | Making and unmaking of the Third World |
| Responsibility: | Arturo Escobar. |
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Abstract:
"How did the industrialized nations of North America and Europe come to be seen as the appropriate models for post-World War II societies in Asia, Africa, and Latin America? How did the postwar discourse on development actually create the so-called Third World? And what will happen when development ideology collapses? To answer these questions, Arturo Escobar shows how development policies became mechanisms of control that were just as pervasive and effective as their colonial counterparts. The development apparatus generated categories powerful enough to shape the thinking even of its occasional critics while poverty and hunger became widespread. "Development" was not even partially "deconstructed" until the 1980s, when new tools for analyzing the representation of social reality were applied to specific "Third World" cases. Here Escobar deploys these new techniques in a provocative analysis of development discourse and practice in general, concluding with a discussion of alternative visions for a postdevelopment era."--Book cover.
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