Visions of Development
Films Division of India and the Imagination of Progress, 1948-75
Published on 15. August 2016
Book
Paperback/Softback
344 pages
978-0-19-060832-3 (ISBN)
Description
Visions of Development analyses both the continuities in and departures from colonial ideologies for development in India in 1948-75. Utilizing the novel methodology of film analysis of government-sponsored documentary films from the period, it focuses on economic planning and industrialisation, large dams, family planning, integration of tribal peoples (Adivasis) into society, and civic education
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Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 139 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
486 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-060832-3 (9780190608323)
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Peter Sutoris, born in Slovakia, is a scholar of development, a documentary filmmaker and an educator. He is the director and producer of The Undiscovered Country, a film about education, development and environmental degradation in the Marshall Islands. He has lived and worked in South Asia, the Pacific, the Balkans and South Africa. A History graduate of Dartmouth College, he is currently a PhD candidate and Gates Scholar at the Education Faculty of Cambridge University. His current research focuses on cross-cultural scalability of development interventions, with a focus on environmental education programs.