Escobar, Arturo, 1951-

Encountering development : the making and unmaking of the third world / Making and unmaking of the third world Arturo Escobar ; with a new preface by the author. - Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2012. - xlvii, 290 p. ; 24 cm.

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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Economic development.
Economic history--1945-


Developing countries--Economic conditions.
Developing countries--Social conditions.

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