Countering Development
Indigenous Modernity and the Moral Imagination
1st Edition
Published on 21. May 2008
315 pages
978-0-8223-8880-7 (ISBN)
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An ethnographic analysis of the visions of development and modernity underlying indigenous Colombian communities efforts to rebuild following a 1994 earthquake.
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David D. Gow is the Edgar R. Baker Professor of International Affairs and Anthropology and Director of the International Development Studies Program in The Elliott School of International Affairs at The George Washington University. Formerly a consultant to the World Bank and a senior associate with the World Resources Institute, he is a coeditor of Implementing Rural Development Projects: Lessons from AID and World Bank Experiences.
Content
Acknowledgments ix
Abbreviations xiii
Introduction: Beyond the Developmental Gaze 1
1. More Than an Engaged Fieldnote: Collaboration, Dialogue, and Difference 21
2. Disaster and Diaspora: Discourses of Development and Opportunity 59
3. Development Planning: Slaves of Modernity or Agents of Change? 96
4. Local Knowledge, Different Dreams: Planning for the Next Generation 134
5. The Nasa of the North and the Tensions of Modernity 171
6. Beyond Development: The Continuing Struggle for Peace, Justice, and Inclusion 202
Conclusion. Countering Development: Indigenous Modernity and the Moral Imagination 240
Notes 261
Bibliography 273
Index 295
Abbreviations xiii
Introduction: Beyond the Developmental Gaze 1
1. More Than an Engaged Fieldnote: Collaboration, Dialogue, and Difference 21
2. Disaster and Diaspora: Discourses of Development and Opportunity 59
3. Development Planning: Slaves of Modernity or Agents of Change? 96
4. Local Knowledge, Different Dreams: Planning for the Next Generation 134
5. The Nasa of the North and the Tensions of Modernity 171
6. Beyond Development: The Continuing Struggle for Peace, Justice, and Inclusion 202
Conclusion. Countering Development: Indigenous Modernity and the Moral Imagination 240
Notes 261
Bibliography 273
Index 295
