Cargando…
Confronting Desire : Psychoanalysis and International Development /
By applying psychoanalytic perspectives to key themes, concepts, and practices underlying the development enterprise, Confronting Desire offers a new way of analyzing the problems, challenges, and potentialities of international development. Ilan Kapoor makes a compelling case for examining developm...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
|---|---|
| Autor principal: | |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
| Publicado: |
Ithaca, NY :
Cornell University Press,
[2020]
|
| Temas: | |
| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
| Sumario: | By applying psychoanalytic perspectives to key themes, concepts, and practices underlying the development enterprise, Confronting Desire offers a new way of analyzing the problems, challenges, and potentialities of international development. Ilan Kapoor makes a compelling case for examining development's unconscious desires, and in the process inaugurates a new field of study: psychoanalytic development studies.Drawing from the work of Jacques Lacan and Slavoj Žižek, as well as from psychoanalytic postcolonial and feminist scholarship, Kapoor analyzes how development's unconscious desires "speak out," most often in excessive and unpredictable ways that contradict the outwardly rational declarations of its practitioners. He investigates development's many irrationalities-from obsessions about growth and poverty to the seductions of racism or over-consumption. By deploying key psychoanalytic concepts-enjoyment, fantasy, antagonism, fetishism, envy, drive, perversion, and hysteria-Confronting Desire critically analyzes important issues in development-growth, poverty, inequality, participation, consumption, corruption, gender, "race," LGBTQ politics, and revolution universalism. With an eye for international development from a psychoanalytic perspective, Confronting Desire offers prescriptions for how applying psychoanalysis to development theory and practice can provide fertile ground for radical politics and transformation of development theory and praxis. |
|---|---|
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (324 p.) : 2 b&w halftones |
| ISBN: | 9781501751738 9783110690460 9783110704716 9783110704518 9783110704723 9783110704549 |
| Acceso: | restricted access |