Power of Development

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Jonathan Crush
Routledge, Jul 22, 2005 - Science - 340 pages
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.
 

Contents

THE INVENTION OF DEVELOPMENT
27
A NEW DEAL IN EMOTIONS
44
SCENES FROM CHILDHOOD
63
GREEN DEVELOPMENT THEORY?
87
SELECTIVE SILENCE
100
SUSTAINABLE DISASTERS?
115
THE OBJECT OF DEVELOPMENT
129
MODERNIZING MALTHUS
158
EUROCENTRISM AND GEOGRAPHY
192
IMAGINING A POSTDEVELOPMENT ERA
211
BLACK CONSCIOUSNESS AND THE QUEST FOR
228
POSTMODERNISM GENDER AND DEVELOPMENT
253
BECOMING A DEVELOPMENT CATEGORY
266
Bibliography
278
Index
312
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CHANGING DISCOURSES OF DEVELOPMENT
176

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

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