
Power of Development
Jonathan Crush(Editor)
Routledge (Publisher)
Published on 17. August 1995
Book
Hardback
340 pages
978-0-415-11176-8 (ISBN)
Description
Post-colonial, post-modern and feminist critiques have challenged the ways we theorise and practice development. Development is not just the conclusion of economic logic; its histories reveal a legacy of contested power, illuminating the contemporary battlefields of knowledge.
These essays explore the language of development, its rhetoric and meaning within different political and institutional contexts. The contested ideas behind world development are explained, with illustrative material, sensitive to place and time, chiefly drawn from Asia, Africa and Latin America.
This book examines the power of development to imagine new worlds and to constantly reinvent itself as the solution to problems of national and global disorder.
These essays explore the language of development, its rhetoric and meaning within different political and institutional contexts. The contested ideas behind world development are explained, with illustrative material, sensitive to place and time, chiefly drawn from Asia, Africa and Latin America.
This book examines the power of development to imagine new worlds and to constantly reinvent itself as the solution to problems of national and global disorder.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
681 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-415-11176-8 (9780415111768)
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Person
A Professor of Geography at Queen's University, Canada.
Content
W.M. Adams, Michael Cowan, Arturo Escobar, Kenneth Hewitt, Fiona Mackenzie, Kate Manzo, T.G. McGee, Timothy Mitchell, Jane Parpart, Doug Porter, Robert Shenton, Nanda Shresta, Chris Tapscott, Michael Watts and Gavin Williams