Title Encountering development : the making and unmaking of the Third World / Arturo Escobar.

Publication Info.	Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [1995]
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Description	ix, 290 pages ; 24 cm.
Series	Princeton studies in culture/power/history
	Princeton studies in culture/power/history.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-274) and index.
Contents	Preface vii -- 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 postdevelopment era.
Summary	"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 "deconstructed" until the 1980s, when new tools for analyzing the representation of social reality were applied to specific "Third World" cases. Here Escobar deploys these new techniques in a provocative analysis of development discourse and practice in general, concluding with a discussion of alternative visions for a postdevelopment era."--Book cover.
Subject	Economic development.
	Economic history -- 1945-
	Developing countries -- Economic conditions.
	Developing countries -- Social conditions.
	Pays en développement.
	Pays développés.
	Histoire économique.
	Conditions sociales.
	Conditions économiques.
	Développement économique.
	Politique d'aide au développement.
	Economic development. (OCoLC)fst00901785
	Economic history. (OCoLC)fst00901974
	Social conditions. (OCoLC)fst01919811
	Developing countries. (OCoLC)fst01242969
	Economische ontwikkeling.
	Economische situatie.
	Ontwikkelingsproblematiek.
	Culturele identiteit.
	Imperialisme.
	développement -- modernité.
	développement -- pays en voie de développement.
	Soziale Situation.
	Wirtschaftsentwicklung.
	Entwicklungsländer.
	DEVELOPING COUNTRIES.
	ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT.
	ECONOMIC HISTORY.
	POVERTY.
	DEVELOPMENT.
	Développement économique.
	Histoire économique -- 1945-
	Entwicklungshilfe. (DE-588)4014948-1
	Entwicklungstheorie. (DE-588)4121207-1
	Pays en voie de développement -- Conditions sociales.
	Pays en voie de développement -- Conditions économiques.
	Entwicklungsländer. (DE-588)4014954-7
Chronological Term	Since 1945
	Geschichte 1945-1995.
Added Title	Making and unmaking of the Third World
ISBN	0691034095 (cl : acid-free paper)
	9780691034096 (cl : acid-free paper)
	0691001022 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
	9780691001029 (pbk. : acid-free paper)

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