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International Development and the Social Sciences Essays on the History and Politics of Knowledge

Cooper Frederick Packard Randall M.
Heftet / 1998 / Engelsk

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9780520209572
Publisert
1998-02-02
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University of California Press
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544 gr
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229 mm
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152 mm
Dybde
23 mm
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P, 06
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Engelsk
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Heftet

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Cooper Frederick
Packard Randall M.

Biographical note

Frederick Cooper is Charles Gibson Collegiate Professor of History at the University of Michigan. He is the author of Tensions of Empire: Colonial Cultures in a Bourgeois World (California, 1997) and Decolonization and African Society: The Labor Question in French and British Africa (1996). Randall Packard is Asa Griggs Candler Professor of History and International Health at Emory University. He is the author of White Plague, Black Labor: Tuberculosis and the Political Economy of Health and Disease in South Africa (California, 1989).

International Development and the Social Sciences Essays on the History and Politics of Knowledge

Cooper Frederick Packard Randall M.
Heftet / 1998 / Engelsk
Cooper Frederick Packard Randall M.
Heftet / 1998 / Engelsk
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During the past fifty years, colonial empires around the world have collapsed and vast areas that were once known as 'colonies' have become known as 'less developed countries' or 'the third world'. The idea of development - and the relationship it implies between industrialized, affluent nations and poor, emerging nations - has become the key to a new conceptual framework. Development has also become a vast industry, involving billions of dollars and a worldwide community of experts. These essays - written by scholars in many fields - examine the production, transmission, and implementation of ideas about development within historical, political, and intellectual contexts, emphasizing the changing meanings of development over the past fifty years. The concept of development has come under attack in recent years both from those who see development as the imperialism of knowledge, imposing on the world a modernity that it does not necessarily want, and those who see development efforts as a distortion of the world market. These essays look beyond the polemics and focus on the diverse, contested, and changing meanings of development among social movements, national governments, international agencies, foundations, and scholars.
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Examines the production, transmission, and implementation of ideas about development within historical, political, and intellectual contexts. This title focuses on the diverse and contested meanings of development among social movements, national governments, international agencies, foundations and scholars.
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PREFACE LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS Introduction Frederick Cooper and Randall Packard PART ONE • THE END OF EMPIRE AND THE DEVELOPMENT FRAMEWORK 1. Instruments and Idioms of Colonial and National Development: India's Historical Experience in Comparative Perspective Sugata Bose 2. Modernizing Bureaucrats, Backward Mricans, and the Development Concept Frederick Cooper 3· Visions of Postwar Health and Development and Their Impact on Public Health Interventions in the Developing World Randall Packard PART TWO • INTELLECTUAL COMMUNITIES AND CONNECTIONS 4· Intellectual Openings and Policy Closures: Disequilibria in Contemporary Development Economics Michael R Carter 5· Anthropology and Its Evil Twin: "Development" in the Constitution of a Discipline James Ferguson 6. Population Science, Private Foundations, and Development Aid: The Transformation of Demographic Knowledge in the United States, 1945-1965 John Sharpless PART THREE • IDEAS AND DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTIONS 7. Redefining Development at the World Bank Martha Finnemore 8. Development Ideas in Latin America: Paradigm Shift and the Economic Commission for Latin America Kathryn Sikkink PART FOUR•DEVELOPMENT LANGUAGE AND ITS APPROPRIATIONS g. "Found in Most Traditional Societies": Traditional Medical Practitioners between Culture and Development Stacy Leigh Pigg 10. Senegalese Development: From Mass Mobilization to Technocratic Elitism Mamadou Diouf 11. Agrarian Populism in the Development of a Modern Nation (India) Akhil Gupta INDEX
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"This superb collection assembles a number of stimulating and theoretically current contributions by outstanding scholars."—Angelique Haugerud, author of The Culture of Politics in Modern Kenya

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During the past fifty years, colonial empires around the world have collapsed and vast areas that were once known as 'colonies' have become known as 'less developed countries' or 'the third world'. The idea of development - and the relationship it implies between industrialized, affluent nations and poor, emerging nations - has become the key to a new conceptual framework. Development has also become a vast industry, involving billions of dollars and a worldwide community of experts. These essays - written by scholars in many fields - examine the production, transmission, and implementation of ideas about development within historical, political, and intellectual contexts, emphasizing the changing meanings of development over the past fifty years. The concept of development has come under attack in recent years both from those who see development as the imperialism of knowledge, imposing on the world a modernity that it does not necessarily want, and those who see development efforts as a distortion of the world market. These essays look beyond the polemics and focus on the diverse, contested, and changing meanings of development among social movements, national governments, international agencies, foundations, and scholars.
Les mer
Examines the production, transmission, and implementation of ideas about development within historical, political, and intellectual contexts. This title focuses on the diverse and contested meanings of development among social movements, national governments, international agencies, foundations and scholars.
Les mer
PREFACE LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS Introduction Frederick Cooper and Randall Packard PART ONE • THE END OF EMPIRE AND THE DEVELOPMENT FRAMEWORK 1. Instruments and Idioms of Colonial and National Development: India's Historical Experience in Comparative Perspective Sugata Bose 2. Modernizing Bureaucrats, Backward Mricans, and the Development Concept Frederick Cooper 3· Visions of Postwar Health and Development and Their Impact on Public Health Interventions in the Developing World Randall Packard PART TWO • INTELLECTUAL COMMUNITIES AND CONNECTIONS 4· Intellectual Openings and Policy Closures: Disequilibria in Contemporary Development Economics Michael R Carter 5· Anthropology and Its Evil Twin: "Development" in the Constitution of a Discipline James Ferguson 6. Population Science, Private Foundations, and Development Aid: The Transformation of Demographic Knowledge in the United States, 1945-1965 John Sharpless PART THREE • IDEAS AND DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTIONS 7. Redefining Development at the World Bank Martha Finnemore 8. Development Ideas in Latin America: Paradigm Shift and the Economic Commission for Latin America Kathryn Sikkink PART FOUR•DEVELOPMENT LANGUAGE AND ITS APPROPRIATIONS g. "Found in Most Traditional Societies": Traditional Medical Practitioners between Culture and Development Stacy Leigh Pigg 10. Senegalese Development: From Mass Mobilization to Technocratic Elitism Mamadou Diouf 11. Agrarian Populism in the Development of a Modern Nation (India) Akhil Gupta INDEX
Les mer
"This superb collection assembles a number of stimulating and theoretically current contributions by outstanding scholars."—Angelique Haugerud, author of The Culture of Politics in Modern Kenya

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780520209572
Publisert
1998-02-02
Utgiver
Vendor
University of California Press
Vekt
544 gr
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Dybde
23 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet

Redaktør
Cooper Frederick
Packard Randall M.

Biographical note

Frederick Cooper is Charles Gibson Collegiate Professor of History at the University of Michigan. He is the author of Tensions of Empire: Colonial Cultures in a Bourgeois World (California, 1997) and Decolonization and African Society: The Labor Question in French and British Africa (1996). Randall Packard is Asa Griggs Candler Professor of History and International Health at Emory University. He is the author of White Plague, Black Labor: Tuberculosis and the Political Economy of Health and Disease in South Africa (California, 1989).

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