Includes index and bibliographical references (p. [249]-274).

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

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface to the 2012 edition; Preface; CHAPTER 1 Introduction: Development and the Anthropology of Modernity; CHAPTER 2 Problematization of Poverty: The Tale of Three Worlds and Development; CHAPTER 3 Economics and the Space of Development: Tales of Growth and Capital; CHAPTER 4 Dispersion of Power: Tales of Food and Hunger; CHAPTER 5 Power and Visibility: Tales of Peasants, Women, and the Environment; CHAPTER 6 Conclusion: Imagining a Postdevelopment Era; Notes; References; Index.

"Evaluates development enterprise and development discourse from a critical theory perspective. This view of development policies and control mechanisms employs Colombian case studies of the Programa de Desarrollo Rural Integrado and of the local application of the discourse of women in development"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.

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