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Encountering development : the making and unmaking of the third world /
How did the industrialized nations of North America and Europe come to be seen as the appropriate models for post-World War II societies in Asia, Africa, and Latin America? How did the postwar discourse on development actually create the so-called Third World? And what will happen when development i...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, N.J. ; Woodstock :
Princeton University Press,
[2012]
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| Edición: | New ed. / |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | How did the industrialized nations of North America and Europe come to be seen as the appropriate models for post-World War II societies in Asia, Africa, and Latin America? How did the postwar discourse on development actually create the so-called Third World? And what will happen when development ideology collapses? To answer these questions, Arturo Escobar shows how development policies became mechanisms of control that were just as pervasive and effective as their colonial counterparts. The development apparatus generated categories powerful enough to shape the thinking even of its occasion. |
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| Notas: | Originally published: 1995. Paperback reissue, with a new preface by the author. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xlvii, 290 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-274) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781400839926 1400839920 9786613267467 6613267465 9781400811502 1400811503 |