ISBN:
9781400839926
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (1 online resource (339 p.))
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
Ebrary online
Series Statement:
EBL-Schweitzer
Parallel Title:
Druckausg. Escobar, Arturo, 1951 - Encountering development
DDC:
330.91724
Keywords:
Entwicklung
;
Entwicklungspolitik
;
Entwicklungsländer
;
Developing countries - Economic conditions
;
Developing countries -- Economic conditions
;
Developing countries - Social conditions
;
Developing countries -- Social conditions
;
Economic development
;
Economic development
;
Economic history - 1945-
;
Economic history -- 1945-
;
Economic development
;
Economic history
;
1945-
;
Developing countries
;
Economic conditions
;
Developing countries
;
Social conditions
;
Electronic books
;
Entwicklungsländer
;
Soziale Situation
;
Entwicklungsmodell
;
Geschichte 1945-1995
;
Entwicklungshilfe
;
Geschichte 1945-1995
;
Entwicklungsländer
;
Entwicklungshilfe
;
Entwicklungstheorie
;
Geschichte 1945-1995
Abstract:
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface to the 2012 edition; Preface; CHAPTER 1 Introduction: Development and the Anthropology of Modernity; CHAPTER 2 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 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; Notes; References; Index
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 occasio
Note:
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