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Record Nr.

UNINA9910973333903321

Autore

Bergeron Suzanne

Titolo

Fragments of development : nation, gender, and the space of modernity / / Suzanne Bergeron

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ann Arbor : , : University of Michigan Press, , c2004

ISBN

9786612423192

9780472021567

0472021567

9781282423190

1282423193

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (213 p.)

Disciplina

338.9/001

Soggetti

Development economics - Philosophy

Nation-state - Economic aspects

Feminist theory

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- ONE Narratives of the Nation: Modernizing the Global South in the Space of Development -- TWO Mapping Modernization and Growth -- THREE Coloniality, Modernity, and the Nation-State in Dependency Theory -- FOUR Structural Adjustment and Its Discontents -- FIVE Development and Globalization: Toward a Feminist (Re)Vision -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

By tracing out the intersection between the imagined space of the national economy and the gendered construction of "expert" knowledge in development thought, Suzanne Bergeron provides a provocative analysis of development discourse and practice. By elaborating a framework of including/excluding economic subjects and activities in development economics, she provides a rich account of the role that economists have played in framing the contested political and cultural space of development. Bergeron's account of the construction of the national economy as an object of development policy follows its shifting meanings through modernization and growth models,



dependency theory, structural adjustment, and contemporary debates about globalization and highlights how intersections of nation and economy are based on gendered and colonial scripts. The author's analysis of development debates effectively demonstrates that critics of development who ignore economists' nation stories may actually bolster the formation they are attempting to subvert. Fragments of Development is essential reading for those interested in development studies, feminist economics, international political economy, and globalization studies.