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Encountering development : the making and unmaking of the third world / Arturo Escobar ; with a new preface by the author.

By: Escobar, Arturo, 1951-Material type: TextTextPublication details: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2012Description: xlvii, 290 p. ; 24 cmISBN: 9780691150451Other title: Making and unmaking of the third worldSubject(s): Economic development | Economic history -- 1945- | Developing countries -- Economic conditions | Developing countries -- Social conditionsDDC classification: 338.9
Contents:
Introduction: development and the anthropology of modernity -- The problematization of poverty: the tale of three worlds and development -- Economics and the space of development: tales of growth and capital -- The dispersion of power: tales of food and hunger -- Power and visibility: tales of peasants, women, and the environment -- Conclusion: imagining a postdevelopment era.
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Originally published: 1995. Paperback reissue, with a new preface by the author.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [227]-274) and index.

Introduction: development and the anthropology of modernity -- The problematization of poverty: the tale of three worlds and development -- Economics and the space of development: tales of growth and capital -- The dispersion of power: tales of food and hunger -- Power and visibility: tales of peasants, women, and the environment -- Conclusion: imagining a postdevelopment era.

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