International Development and the Social Sciences Essays on the History and Politics of Knowledge

Name: International Development and the Social Sciences Essays on the History and Politics of Knowledge
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ISBN: 9780520209572

ISBN-10: 0520209575

ISBN-13: 9780520209572

Edition: 1998

Authors: Frederick Cooper, Randall Packard

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During the past fifty years, colonial empires around the world have collapsed and vast areas that were once known as "colonies" have become known as "less developed countries" or "the third world." The idea of development--and the relationship it implies between industrialized, affluent nations and poor, emerging nations--has become the key to a new conceptual framework. Development has also become a vast industry, involving billions of dollars and a worldwide community of experts. These essays--written by scholars in many fields--examine the production, transmission, and implementation of ideas about development within historical, political, and intellectual contexts, emphasizing the…

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List price: $33.95
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 2/2/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 374
Size: 6.14" wide x 8.98" long x 0.87" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English



Preface


List of Contributors


Introduction




Instruments and Idioms of Colonial and National Development: India's Historical Experience in Comparative Perspective




Modernizing Bureaucrats, Backward Africans, and the Development Concept




Visions of Postwar Health and Development and Their Impact on Public Health Interventions in the Developing World




Intellectual Openings and Policy Closures: Disequilibria in Contemporary Development Economics




Anthropology and Its Evil Twin: "Development" in the Constitution of a Discipline




Population Science, Private Foundations, and Development Aid: The Transformation of Demographic Knowledge in the United States, 1945-1965




Redefining Development at the World Bank




Development Ideas in Latin America: Paradigm Shift and the Economic Commission for Latin America




"Found in Most Traditional Societies": Traditional Medical Practitioners between Culture and Development




Senegalese Development: From Mass Mobilization to Technocratic Elitism




Agrarian Populism in the Development of a Modern Nation (India)



Index