Encountering development : the making and unmaking of the Third World / Arturo Escobar.
"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 develop...
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
[1995]
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| Series: | Princeton studies in culture/power/history.
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Table of Contents:
- Preface vii
- Chapter 1 Introduction: development and the anthropology of modernity
- Chapter 2 The 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 The 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.