Gow Countering Development

Indigenous Modernity and the Moral Imagination
1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8880-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 315 Seiten

An ethnographic analysis of the visions of development and modernity underlying indigenous Colombian communities efforts to rebuild following a 1994 earthquake.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gow, David D.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Regional- & Raumplanung Stadtplanung, Kommunale Planung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.