Encountering Development The Making and Unmaking of the Third World

Name: Encountering Development The Making and Unmaking of the Third World
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ISBN: 9780691001029

ISBN-10: 0691001022

ISBN-13: 9780691001029

Edition: 1995

Authors: Arturo Escobar

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How did the industrialized nations of North America and Europe come to be seen as the appropriate models for post-World War II societies in Asia, Africa, and Latin America? How did the postwar discourse on development actually create the so-called Third World? And what will happen when development ideology collapses? To answer these questions, Arturo Escobar shows how development policies became mechanisms of control that were just as pervasive and effective as their colonial counterparts. The development apparatus generated categories powerful enough to shape the thinking even of its occasional critics while poverty and hunger became widespread. "Development" was not even partially…

Book details

List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 1995
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 12/4/1994
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.74" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English

Arturo Escobar is the Kenan Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. His most recent book is "Territories of Difference".



Preface



Introduction: Development and the Anthropology of Modernity



The Problematization of Poverty: The Tale of Three Worlds and Development



Economics and the Space of Development: Tales of Growth and Capital



The Dispersion of Power: Tales of Food and Hunger



Power and Visibility: Tales of Peasants, Women, and the Environment



Conclusion: Imagining a Postdevelopment Era


Notes


References


Index