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Title: Encountering Development by Arturo Escobar ISBN: 0-691-00102-2 Publisher: Princeton University Press Pub. Date: 14 November, 1994 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: Anger does not equal analysis
Comment: This is a tract, not a thoughtful piece of scholarship. It is in the Latin American school of angry social science, but is little informed by fact. Much of what it says is correct, but is also well known. But the analysis is weak, based on incorrect or outdated data, and simply a regurgitation of stereotypes instead of a deductive grounded analysis based upon good ethnographic work. It is therefore often simply wrong. But anger sells books.....
Rating: 5
Summary: Reunderstanding development
Comment: Arturo Escobar critics the whole concept of development in theory and practice from an extremely unusual and original perspective. He steps back and views development as something exotic and almost non-sense. Inspired on the work of Foucault, the author examines the evolution of the discourse about development as a form of how the West keeps exerting power and influence on the Third World. The ethnocentric views of development and interventions that come with them - propagated by Western governments, multinational companies, development institutions and academia - puts Third World cultures and traditional populations as something that should be significantly changed to achieve the so-dreamed "development." Although the results of these western-driven interventions over decades have usually been catastrophic for Third World's populations and cultures, Western "experts" keep coming to the Third World and elaborating new forms of discourses on development, now addressing objects like sustainable development, women and development and poverty erradication - all ethnocentric and based on western values. This book should be read by anyone who wants to reunderstand development in the Third World (and reflect if it is needed at all!).
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Title: Development As Freedom by Amartya Sen ISBN: 0385720270 Publisher: Anchor Books/Doubleday Pub. Date: 15 August, 2000 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Theories of Development by Richard Peet, Elaine R. Hartwick ISBN: 1572304898 Publisher: Guilford Publications Pub. Date: 09 July, 1999 List Price(USD): $27.00 |
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Title: The Development Dictionary: A Guide to Knowledge As Power by Wolfgang Sachs ISBN: 1856490440 Publisher: Zed Books Pub. Date: 01 February, 1992 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: International Development and the Social Sciences: Essays on the History and Politics of Knowledge by Frederick Cooper, Randall Packard ISBN: 0520209575 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: 01 February, 1998 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: The Anti-Politics Machine: "Development," Depoliticization, and Bureaucratic Power in Lesotho by James Ferguson ISBN: 0816624372 Publisher: University of Minnesota Press Pub. Date: 01 January, 1994 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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