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Confronting desire psychoanalysis and international development

"This book critically analyzes important current issues in international development-growth, poverty, inequality, participation, consumption, corruption, gender, race, LGBT politics, revolution, universalism-by deploying key psychoanalytic concepts-enjoyment, fantasy, antagonism, fetishism, env...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Kapoor, Ilan (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca Cornell University Press 2020
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Psychoanalysis and international development
  • Post-development's surrender to global capitalism: a psychoanalytic critique
  • The universalist dimensions of antagonism
  • What "drives" capitalist development?
  • Capitalism as envy-machine
  • Fetishism in international development: domination, disavowal, and foreclosure
  • The "gaze" in international development: panoptic or traumatic?
  • When sex = (socially constructed) gender, what is lost, politically?
  • Psychoanalytic reflections on gender and development
  • The politics of perversion and hysteria in the Tunisian revolution and its aftermath
  • The queer Third World
  • The racist enjoyments and fantasies of international development
  • Development and the poor: enjoy your symptom!