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The development dictionary : a guide to knowledge as power / edited by Wolfgang Sachs.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Economic development--Terminology.
- Economic development.
- Genre:
- Terminology.
- Dictionaries.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xx, 332 pages.)
- Edition:
- Second edition.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Zed Books ; New York : Distributed in the USA exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- In this classic collection, some of the world's most eminent critics of development review the key concepts of the development discourse.Each essay examines one concept from a historical and anthropological point of view, highlights its particular bias, and exposes its historical obsolescence and intellectual sterility. The authors argue that a bidding farewell to the whole Eurocentric development idea is urgently needed, in order to liberate people's minds in both North and South for bold responses to the environmental and ethical challenges now confronting humanity.The combined result forms a must-read invitation to experts, grassroots movements and students of development to recognize the tainted glasses they put on whenever they participate in the development discourse.
- Contents:
- Introduction / Wolfgang Sachs
- 1. Development / Gustavo Esteva
- - 2. Environment / Wolfgang Sachs
- - 3. Equality / C. Douglas Lummis
- - 4. Helping / Marianne Gronemeyer
- - 5. Market / Gerard Berthoud
- - 6. Needs / Ivan Illich
- - 7. One World / Wolfgang Sachs
- - 8. Participation / Majid Rahnema
- - 9. Planning / Arturo Escobar
- - 10. Population / Barbara Duden
- - 11. Poverty / Majid Rahnema
- - 12. Production / Jean Robert
- - 13. Progress / Jose Maria Sbert
- - 14. Resources / Vandana Shiva
- - 15. Science / Claude Alvares
- - 16. Socialism / Harry Cleaver
- - 17. Standard of Living / Serge Latouche
- - 18. State / Ashis Nandy
- - 19. Technology / Otto Ullrich.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781848133815
- 1848133812
- Publisher Number:
- 99990106383
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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