Development histories reveal a legacy of contested power. These essays explore the language of development and its meaning within different political contexts, drawing material from Africa, Asia and Latin America by way of comparison
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Development histories reveal a legacy of contested power. These essays explore the language of development and its meaning within different political contexts, drawing material from Africa, Asia and Latin America by way of comparison
Introduction : imagining development / Jonathan CrushThe invention of development / Michael Cowen and Robert Shenton -- 'A new deal in emotions' : theory and practice and the crisis of development / Michael Watts -- Scenes from childhood : the homesickness of development discourses / Doug J. Porter -- Green development theory? : environmentalism and sustainable development / W.M. Adams -- Selective silence : a feminist encounter with environmental discourse in colonial Africa / Fiona Mackenzie -- Sustainable disasters? : perspectives and powers in the discourse of calamity / Kenneth Hewitt -- The object of development : America's Egypt / Timothy Mitchell -- Modernizing Malthus : the World Bank, population control and the African environment / Gavin Williams -- Changing discourses of development in South Africa / Chris Tapscott -- Eurocentrism and geography : reflections on Asian urbanization / T.G. McGee -- Imagining a post-development era / Arturo Escobar -- Black consciousness and the quest for a counter-modernist development / Kate Manzo -- Post-modernism, gender and development / Jane L. Parpart -- Becoming a development category / Nanda Shrestha.
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