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Invested interests : capital, culture, and the World Bank / Bret Benjamin.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Benjamin, Bret.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Economic assistance.
- Globalization.
- World Bank--History.
- World Bank.
- World Bank--Influence.
- World Bank--Social aspects.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (310 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis, Minn. : University of Minnesota Press ; Bristol : University Presses Marketing [distributor], c2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In Invested Interests, Bret Benjamin contends that the World Bank has, from its inception, trafficked in culture. From the political context in which the Bank was chartered to its evolution into an interventionist development agency with vast, unchecked powers, Benjamin explores the Banks central role in the global dissemination of Fordist-Keynesianism, its conflicted support for nationalism and the nation-state, and its emerging awareness of the relationships between economics and culture.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Accounting for culture
- Imaginative ventures : cultivating confidence at Bretton Woods
- Imperial burden : selling development to Wall Street
- Uncomfortable intimacies : managing third world nationalisms
- Culture underwritten : radical critique and the bank's cultural turn
- Success stories : NGOs and the banking Bildungsroman
- Literary movements : impossible collectivities in The god of small things
- Minimum agendas : the world social forum and the place of culture.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8166-5442-5
- OCLC:
- 476125734
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