Power of Development

by Jonathan Crush (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781134832965
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	07/22/2005
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	340
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

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

Table of Contents

Introduction, Jonathan Crush; Part 1 Histories of Development; Chapter 1 The Invention of Development, Michael Cowen, Robert Shenton; Chapter 2 ‘A New Deal in Emotions’, Michael Watts; Chapter 3 Scenes from Childhood, Doug J. Porter; Chapter 4 Green Development Theory?, W.M. Adams; Chapter 5 Selective Silence, Fiona Mackenzie; Part 2 Geographies of Development; Chapter 6 Sustainable Disasters?, Kenneth Hewitt; Chapter 7 The Object of Development, Timothy Mitchell; Chapter 8 Modernizing Malthus, Gavin Williams; Chapter 9 Changing Discourses of Development in South Africa, Chris Tapscot; Chapter 10 Eurocentrism and Geography, T.G. McGee; Part 3 Other Developments; Chapter 11 Imagining a Post-Development Era, Arturo Escobar; Chapter 12 Black Consciousness and the Quest for a Counter-Modernist Development, Kate Manzo; Chapter 13 Post-Modernism, Gender and Development, Jane L. Parpart; Chapter 14 Becoming a Development Category, Nanda Shrestha;