Power of Development

Erscheinungsjahr 1995
ISBN: 978-0-415-11176-8
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 340 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 681 g

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 examines the power of development to imagine new worlds and to constantly reinvent itself as the solution to problems of national and global disorder.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Crush, Jonathan

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Entwicklungspolitik, Nord-Süd Beziehungen
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Entwicklungsstudien
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltpolitik, Umweltprotokoll
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Umwelt- und Gesundheitspolitik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

W.M. Adams, Michael Cowan, Arturo Escobar, Kenneth Hewitt, Fiona Mackenzie, Kate Manzo, T.G. McGee, Timothy Mitchell, Jane Parpart, Doug Porter, Robert Shenton, Nanda Shresta, Chris Tapscott, Michael Watts and Gavin Williams

Über Autor(innen)

A Professor of Geography at Queen’s University, Canada.