On the Edges of Development: Cultural Interventions (Routledge Studies in Development and Society ; 18)

Edited By Kum-Kum Bhavnani and Three Others

ISBN 10: 0415956218 / ISBN 13: 9780415956215

Published by Routledge, 2009

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Inscribed on the half-title page by the first co-editor to a Harvard economist. Hinges are starting, holding well; text clean. xiv, 275 p. Interesting provenance [otob: 4] Contents: Introduction : From the Edges of Development / Kum-Kum Bhavnani . [et al.] -- -- Pt. I. Refusing Representations of Development -- 1. October 17, 1961 / Moustafa Bayoumi -- 2. Ode to "Quasheba" : Resistance Rituals among Higgler Women in Jamaica / Hume N. Johnson -- 3. Plural Economies and the Conditions for Refusal : Gendered Developments in Bangkok / Ara Wilson -- 4. Dancing on the Edge : Women, Culture, and a Passion for Change / Kum-Kum Bhavnani, Krista Bywater -- 5. Resisting Westernity and Refusing Development / Molefi Kete Asante -- -- Pt. II. Emergent Discourses of Development -- 6. From Roosevelt in Germany to Bush in Iraq : Development's Discourse of Liberation, Democracy, and Free Trade / Maria Josefina Saldaņa-Portillo -- 7. Migrants, Genes, and Socioscientific Phobias : Charting the Fear of the "Third World" Tag in Discourses of Development in New Zealand / Debashish Munshi, Priya A. Kurian -- 8. Overseas Filipino Workers' Tales, or, Globalization Discourses and Development / Ming-Yan Lai -- 9. Erratic Hopes and Inconsistent Expectations for Mexican Rural Women : A Critique of Economic Thinking on Alternatives to Poverty / Magdalena Villarreal -- 10. From Old to New Political Cultures of Opposition : Radical Social Change in an Era of Globalization / John Foran -- -- Pt. III. Fictions of Development -- 11. Mama Benz and the Taste of Money : A Critical View of a "Homespun" Rags-to-Riches Story of Post-Independence Africa / Lena Khor -- 12. History, Development, and Transformation in Paule Marshall's The Chosen Place, The Timeless People : A Conversation among Students of Development / Erin Kennedy . [et al.] -- 13. Urduja through the Looking Glass : A Response to Colonial Trauma / Tera Maxwell -- 14.Fictions of (Under)Development : Hunger Artists in the Global Economy / Francoise Lionnet.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: On the Edges of Development: Cultural Interventions (Routledge Studies in Development and Society ; 18)
• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415956218
• ISBN 13: 9780415956215
• Binding: Blue Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Very Good-
• Dust Jacket Condition: Issued Without Dust Jacket
• Signed: Inscribed By Co-Editor to Prominent Person

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Synopsis

Big business, financial institutions, and capitalist powers have wreaked much havoc on the Third World in the name of development. This book re-imagines development through a careful and imaginative exploration of some of the many ways that culture – in the broadest sense of lived experience and its representation – can recenter resistance, suggest alternative models, and advance critiques of development as it is currently practiced. The diverse group of scholars and activists who contribute chapters to the volume engage with the puzzle of how best to conceptualize an alternative development that improves the living conditions of women and men in different parts of the world and simultaneously demands solutions that focus on the integration of gender, diversity, and development with the realities of people’s lives.

About the Author

Kum-Kum Bhavnani is Professor of Sociology and Director of the program in Women, Culture, and Development at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

John Foran is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Priya Kurian teaches environmental politics and media and politics at the University of Waikato, New Zealand.

Debashish Munshi teaches Management Communication at the University of Waikato, New Zealand.