World Bank literature / Amitava Kumar, editor ; foreword by John Berger ; afterword by Bruce Robbins.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kumar, Amitava, 1963-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

World Bank.

International Monetary Fund.

Globalization.

Physical Description:

xxxiii, 308 pages ; 27 cm

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2003]

Contents:

Consolations for capitalists: propositions in flight from World Bank literature / Cary Nelson

World Bank literacy and the culture of jobs / Evan Watkins

Looking backward, 2002-1969: campus activism in the era of globalization / Barbara Foley

Ya basta! We are rising up! World Bank culture and collective opposition in the north / Rosemary Hennessy

What is globalization anyway? / Doug Henwood

Toward a regional imaginary in Africa / Manthia Diawara

"Poverty in liberty, riches in slavery": the IMF, the World Bank, and women's resistance in west Africa / Grant Farred

The uneven development of tactics / Andrew Ross

Breaking the waves: reading World Bank and social movement documents on the global fisheries / Subir Sinha

Hostage to an unaccountable planetary executive: the flawed "Washington consensus" and two World Bank reports / Kenneth Surin

"Whooping it up for rational prosperity": narratives of the east Asian financial crisis / Joseph Medley and Lorrayne Carroll

Challenging the World Bank's narrative of inclusion / Suzanne Bergeron

World Bank/class blindness / Richard Wolff

Left sensationalists at the transnational crime scene: recent detective fiction from the U.S.-Mexico border region / Claire F. Fox

Under control: reading the facts and FAQs of population control / Bret Benjamin

Developing fictions: the "tribal" in the new Indian writing in English / Rashmi Varma

All published literature is World Bank literature; or, The Zapatistas' storybook / Caren Irr

The weak sovereignty of the postcolonial nation-state / Gautam Premnath

Reading Bharati Mukherjee, reading globalization / Anthony C. Alessandrini

Soldierboys for peace: cognitive mapping, space, and science fiction as World Bank literature / Phillip E. Wegner.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0816638365

0816638373

OCLC:

50149536