Encountering Development The Making and Unmaking of the Third World

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 i...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Escobar, Arturo, 1951- author (author)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press [2011]
Colección:Princeton studies in culture/power/history.
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Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009640133506719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Front matter
  • Contents
  • CHAPTER 1. Introduction: Development and the Anthropology of Modernity
  • CHAPTER 2. The Problematization of Poverty: The Tale of Three Worlds and Development
  • CHAPTER 3. Economics and the Space of Development: Tales of Growth and Capital
  • CHAPTER 4. The Dispersion of Power: Tales of Food and Hunger
  • CHAPTER 5. Power and Visibility: Tales of Peasants, Women, and the Environment
  • CHAPTER 6. Conclusion: Imagining a Post development Era
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index