Encountering Development: The Making and Unmaking of the Third World

Encountering Development: The Making and Unmaking of the Third World
Encountering Development: The Making and Unmaking of the Third World
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Encountering Development: The Making and Unmaking of the Third World
A. Escobar
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Encountering Development: The Making and Unmaking of the Third World

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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.

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ISBN13 (SKU)
9780691150451
Title
Encountering Development: The Making and Unmaking of the Third World
Author
A. Escobar
Edition
2nd
Publisher
John Wiley
Publication Date
2011
Country of Publication
United States
Format Type
Physical
Number of Pages
344
Institutions
IIE MSA
Course Codes
DEDW6211
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