Encountering Development: The Making and Unmaking of the Third World - Rilegato

Escobar, Arturo

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0691034095 ISBN 13: 9780691034096

Casa editrice: Princeton Univ Pr, 1994

Riassunto

"Evaluates development enterprise and development discourse from a critical theory perspective. This view of development policies and control mechanisms employs Colombian case studies of the Programa de Desarrollo Rural Integrado and of the local application of the discourse of women in development"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.http://www.loc.gov/hlas/

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Recensione

Winner of the 1996 Best Book Prize of the NECLA
"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

Contenuti

Preface vii
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

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Princeton Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0691034095
• ISBN 13: 9780691034096
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero di pagine: 290