Encountering Development
Encountering Development 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?…
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Encountering Development
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? And what will happen when development ideology collapses? How did the postwar discourse on development actually create the so-called Third World?
The development apparatus generated categories powerful enough to shape the thinking even of its occasional critics while poverty and hunger became widespread. 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. "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
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