Encountering Development by Arturo Escobar
Answers questions such as: 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?
"Arturo Escobar has given us an important and exciting take on issues of Third World development and its alternatives.. [This book] indisputably provides some exciting and significant new ways of thinking about development... Arturo Escobar has done us all a service."--Contemporary Sociology "[T]he cultural critique--and politics--proposed in this penetrating book are crucial in these perilous times."--Michael F. Jimenez, American Journal of Sociology "[I]mportant... [A]n original and provocative analysis."--Population and Development Review
Arturo Escobar is the Kenan Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. His most recent book is "Territories of Difference".
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| ISBN 13 | 9780691150451 |
| ISBN 10 | 0691150451 |
| Title | Encountering Development |
| Author | Arturo Escobar |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Princeton University Press |
| Year published | 2011-10-30 |
| Number of pages | 344 |
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