Encountering Development
The Making and Unmaking of the Third World
(Sprache: Englisch)
"An intelligent and thorough overview of the rise of the concept of 'development' . . . . [This book] represents the best of interdisciplinary work in cultural studies and speaks to central debates across the permeable borders of anthropology, economics,...
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"An intelligent and thorough overview of the rise of the concept of 'development' . . . . [This book] represents the best of interdisciplinary work in cultural studies and speaks to central debates across the permeable borders of anthropology, economics, history, sociology, and development studies."--Orin Starn, Duke University
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „Encountering Development “
Preface to the 2012 Edition vii Preface xlv CHAPTER 1: Introduction: Development and the Anthropology of Modernity 3 CHAPTER 2: The Problematization of Poverty: The Tale of Three Worlds and Development 21 CHAPTER 3: Economics and the Space of Development: Tales of Growth and Capital 55 CHAPTER 4: The Dispersion of Power: Tales of Food and Hunger 102 CHAPTER 5: Power and Visibility: Tales of Peasants, Women, and the Environment 154 CHAPTER 6: Conclusion: Imagining a Postdevelopment Era 212 Notes 227 References 249 Index 275
Autoren-Porträt von Arturo Escobar
Arturo Escobar With a new preface by the author
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Arturo Escobar
- 2011, 344 Seiten, Maße: 15,4 x 23,5 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Princeton University Press
- ISBN-10: 0691150451
- ISBN-13: 9780691150451
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Englisch
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"Arturo Escobar has given us an important and exciting take on issues of Third World development and its alternatives... [This book] indisputably provides some exciting and significant new ways of thinking about development... Arturo Escobar has done us all a service."--Contemporary Sociology "[T]he cultural critique?and politics?proposed in this penetrating book are crucial in these perilous times."--Michael F. Jim?nez, American Journal of Sociology "[I]mportant... [A]n original and provocative analysis."--Population and Development Review
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