Encountering Development: The Making and Unmaking of the Third World (Princet...

Description: Product Description : Encountering Development: The Making and Unmaking of the Third World (Princeton Studies in Culture/Power/History, 1) How did the industrialized nations of North America and Europe come to be seen as the appropriate models for postWorld War II societies in Asia Africa and Latin America How did the postwar discourse on development actually create the socalled 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 eraEscobar emphasizes the role of economists in development discoursehis case study of Colombia demonstrates that the economization of food resulted in ambitious plans and more hunger To depict the production of knowledge and power in other development fields the author shows how peasants women and nature became objects of knowledge and targets of power under the gaze of expertsIn a substantial new introduction Escobar reviews debates on globalization and postdevelopment since the books original publication in 1995 and argues that the concept of postdevelopment needs to be redefined to meet todays significantly new conditions He then calls for the development of a field of pluriversal studies which he illustrates with examples from recent Latin American movements( it is an used product )

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