Power of development /

Development histories reveal a legacy of contested power. These essays explore the language of development and its meaning within different political contexts, drawing material from Africa, Asia and Latin America by way of comparison.

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Other Authors: Crush, J. S.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 1995.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : imagining development / Jonathan Crush
  • The invention of development / Michael Cowen and Robert Shenton
  • 'A new deal in emotions' : theory and practice and the crisis of development / Michael Watts
  • Scenes from childhood : the homesickness of development discourses / Doug J. Porter
  • Green development theory? : environmentalism and sustainable development / W.M. Adams
  • Selective silence : a feminist encounter with environmental discourse in colonial Africa / Fiona Mackenzie
  • Sustainable disasters? : perspectives and powers in the discourse of calamity / Kenneth Hewitt
  • The object of development : America's Egypt / Timothy Mitchell
  • Modernizing Malthus : the World Bank, population control and the African environment / Gavin Williams
  • Changing discourses of development in South Africa / Chris Tapscott
  • Eurocentrism and geography : reflections on Asian urbanization / T.G. McGee
  • Imagining a post-development era / Arturo Escobar
  • Black consciousness and the quest for a counter-modernist development / Kate Manzo
  • Post-modernism, gender and development / Jane L. Parpart
  • Becoming a development category / Nanda Shrestha.