Power of development / / [edited by] Jonathan Crush

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910808096903321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1995
• ISBN: 1-134-83296-6; 1-283-60508-2; 1-280-11448-7; 1-134-83297-4; 9786613917539; 0-203-97598-7
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (343 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): CrushJonathan <1953->
• Disciplina: 338.9
• Soggetti: Economic development; Sustainable development; Women in economic development
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; POWER OF DEVELOPMENT; Copyright; CONTENTS; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS; PREFACE; ABBREVIATIONS; INTRODUCTION: Imagining development; Part I HISTORIES OF DEVELOPMENT; 1 THE INVENTION OF DEVELOPMENT; 2 'A NEW DEAL IN EMOTIONS': Theory and practice and the crisis of development; 3 SCENES FROM CHILDHOOD: The homesickness of development discourses; 4 GREEN DEVELOPMENT THEORY?: Environmentalism and sustainable development; 5 SELECTIVE SILENCE: A feminist encounter with environmental discourse in colonial Africa; Part II GEOGRAPHIES OF DEVELOPMENT; 6 SUSTAINABLE DISASTERS?: Perspectives and powers in the discourse of calamity7 THE OBJECT OF DEVELOPMENT: America's Egypt; 8 MODERNIZING MALTHUS: The World Bank, population control and the African environment; 9 CHANGING DISCOURSES OF DEVELOPMENT IN SOUTH AFRICA; 10 EUROCENTRISM AND GEOGRAPHY: Reflections on Asian urbanization; Part III OTHER DEVELOPMENTS; 11 IMAGINING A POST-DEVELOPMENT ERA; 12 BLACK CONSCIOUSNESS AND THE QUEST ; FOR A COUNTER-MODERNIST DEVELOPMENT; 13 POST-MODERNISM, GENDER AND DEVELOPMENT; 14 BECOMING A DEVELOPMENT CATEGORY; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 examin