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Uma (Hrsg.) Kothari

A Radical History of Development Studies: Individuals, Institutions and Ideologies

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In this book some of the leading thinkers in development studies trace the history of their multi-disciplinary subject from the late colonial period and its establishment during decolonization all the way through to its contemporary concerns with poverty reduction. They present a critical genealogy of development by looking at the contested evolution and roles of development institutions and exploring changes in development discourses. These recollections, by those who teach, research and practise development, challenge simplistic, unilinear periodizations of the evolution of the discipline, and draw attention to those ongoing critiques of de… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-1-84277-525-7
  • EAN: 9781842775257
  • Produktnummer: 1355801
  • Verlag: Zed Books Ltd
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2005
  • Seitenangabe: 232 S.
  • Masse: H23.4 cm x B17.0 cm x D1.5 cm 372 g
  • Gewicht: 372

Über den Autor


Uma Kothari is a senior lecturer in development studies at the School of Environment and Development, University of Manchester. She has carried out research in India and Mauritius and her research interests include histories and theories of development, colonial and post-colonial discourse, social development and migration and development. She is co-editor of Participation: The New Tyranny? (Zed Books, 2001, with B. Cooke) and Development Theory and Practice: Critical Perspectives (2002, with M. Minogue). She has recently published the chapter 'Sweetening Colonialism: A Mauritian Themed Resort' (2003) in M. Lasansky and B. McClaren (eds), Architecture and Tourism (with T. Edensor), edited a special issue of Journal of International Development on 'Migration, Staying Put and Poverty' (2003) and published 'Authority and expertise: the professionalisation of international development and the ordering of dissent' in Antipode (2005).Uma Kothari is a senior lecturer in development studies at the School of Environment and Development, University of Manchester. She has carried out research in India and Mauritius and her research interests include histories and theories of development, colonial and post-colonial discourse, social development and migration and development. She is co-editor of Participation: The New Tyranny? (Zed Books, 2001, with B. Cooke) and Development Theory and Practice: Critical Perspectives (2002, with M. Minogue). She has recently published the chapter 'Sweetening Colonialism: A Mauritian Themed Resort' (2003) in M. Lasansky and B. McClaren (eds), Architecture and Tourism (with T. Edensor), edited a special issue of Journal of International Development on 'Migration, Staying Put and Poverty' (2003) and published 'Authority and expertise: the professionalisation of international development and the ordering of dissent' in Antipode (2005).

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