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Countering development : indigenous modernity and the moral imagination / David D. Gow.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gow, David D.
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Indians of South America--Colombia--Cauca (Dept.)--Economic conditions.
- Indians of South America.
- Indians of South America--Colombia--Cauca (Dept.)--Government relations.
- Indians of South America--Commerce--Colombia--Cauca (Dept.).
- Economic development--Colombia--Cauca (Dept.).
- Economic development.
- Sustainable development--Colombia--Cauca (Dept.).
- Sustainable development.
- Cauca (Colombia : Department)--Economic conditions.
- Cauca (Colombia : Department).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (317 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, c2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- An ethnographic analysis of the visions of development and modernity underlying indigenous Colombian communities efforts to rebuild following a 1994 earthquake.
- Contents:
- More than an engaged fieldnote : collaboration, dialogue, and difference
- Disaster and diaspora : discourses of development and opportunity
- Development planning : slaves of modernity or agents of change?
- Local knowledge, different dreams : planning for the next generation
- The NASA of the north and the tensions of modernity
- Beyond development : the continuing struggle for peace, justice, and inclusion.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [273]-294) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613022646
- 9781283022644
- 1283022648
- 9780822388807
- 0822388804
- OCLC:
- 271240701
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