International development and the social sciences : essays on the history and politics of knowledge

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cooper/Packard, Author.

Contributor:

Cooper Llosa, Frederick, Contributor.

Packard, Randall M., Contributor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economic development--Research.

Economic development.

Social sciences--Research.

Social sciences.

Developing countries--Economic conditions--Research.

Developing countries.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (344 p.)

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] University of California Press 1997

Language Note:

English

Summary:

During the past fifty years, colonial empires around the world have collapsed and vast areas that were once known as "colonies" have become known as "less developed countries" or "the third world." The idea of development-and the relationship it implies between industrialized, affluent nations and poor, emerging nations-has become the key to a new conceptual framework. Development has also become a vast industry, involving billions of dollars and a worldwide community of experts. These essays-written by scholars in many fields-examine the production, transmission, and implementation of ideas about development within historical, political, and intellectual contexts, emphasizing the changing meanings of development over the past fifty years.The concept of development has come under attack in recent years both from those who see development as the imperialism of knowledge, imposing on the world a modernity that it does not necessarily want, and those who see development efforts as a distortion of the world market. These essays look beyond the polemics and focus on the diverse, contested, and changing meanings of development among social movements, national governments, international agencies, foundations, and scholars.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

List of Contributors

Introduction

Part I: The End of Empire and the Development Framework

1. Instruments and Idioms of Colonial and National Development: India's Historical Experience in Comparative Perspective

2. Modernizing Bureaucrats, Backward Africans, and the Development Concept

3. Visions of Postwar Health and Development and Their Impact on Public Health Interventions in the Developing World

Part II: Intellectual Communities and Connections

4. Intellectual Openings and Policy Closures: Disequilibria in Contemporary Development Economics

5. Anthropology and Its Evil Twin: "Development" in the Constitution of a Discipline

6. Population Science, Private Foundations, and Development Aid: The Transformation of Demographic Knowledge in the United States, 1945-1965

Part III: Ideas and Development Institutions

7. Redefining Development at the World Bank

8. Development Ideas in Latin America: Paradigm, Shift and the Economic Commission for Latin America

Part IV: Development Language and Its Appropriations

9. "Found in Most Traditional Societies": Traditional Medical Practitioners between Culture and Development

10. Senegalese Development: From Mass Mobilization to Technocratic Elitism

11. Agrarian Populism in the Development of a Modern Nation (India)

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

ISBN:

0-520-91944-0

0-585-28057-6

OCLC:

1414455623