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Power of development / edited by Jonathan Crush.

Contributor(s): Crush, J. SMaterial type: TextTextPublication details: London ; New York : Routledge, 1995. Description: xvi, 324 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cmISBN: 0415111773; 0415111765Subject(s): Economic development | Sustainable development | Women in economic developmentDDC classification: 338.9
Contents:
Introduction: Imagining development / Jonathan Crush -- 1. The Invention of Development / Michael Cowen and Robert Shenton -- 2. 'A New Deal in Emotions': Theory and practice and the crisis of development / Michael Watts -- 3. Scenes from Childhood: The homesickness of development discourses / Doug J. Porter -- 4. Green Development Theory? Environmentalism and sustainable development / W. M. Adams -- 5. Selective Silence: A feminist encounter with environmental discourse in colonial Africa / Fiona Mackenzie -- 6. Sustainable Disasters?: Perspectives and powers in the discourse of calamity / Kenneth Hewitt -- 7. The Object of Development: America's Egypt / Timothy Mitchell -- 8. Modernizing Malthus: The World Bank, population control and the African environment / Gavin Williams --9. Changing Discourses of Development in South Africa / Chris Tapscott -- 10. Eurocentrism and Geography: Reflections on Asian urbanization / T. G. McGee.
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General Stacks 		338.9 POW 1995 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available Amirul 84321

Includes bibliographical references (p. 278-311) and index.

Introduction: Imagining development / Jonathan Crush -- 1. The Invention of Development / Michael Cowen and Robert Shenton -- 2. 'A New Deal in Emotions': Theory and practice and the crisis of development / Michael Watts -- 3. Scenes from Childhood: The homesickness of development discourses / Doug J. Porter -- 4. Green Development Theory? Environmentalism and sustainable development / W. M. Adams -- 5. Selective Silence: A feminist encounter with environmental discourse in colonial Africa / Fiona Mackenzie -- 6. Sustainable Disasters?: Perspectives and powers in the discourse of calamity / Kenneth Hewitt -- 7. The Object of Development: America's Egypt / Timothy Mitchell -- 8. Modernizing Malthus: The World Bank, population control and the African environment / Gavin Williams --9. Changing Discourses of Development in South Africa / Chris Tapscott -- 10. Eurocentrism and Geography: Reflections on Asian urbanization / T. G. McGee.

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