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Encountering development : the making and unmaking of the third world / Arturo Escobar ; with a new preface by the author.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2012.Description: xlvii, 290 p. ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780691150451
  • 0691150451
Other title:
  • Making and unmaking of the third world
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 338.9 22
LOC classification:
  • HD75 .E73 2012
Contents:
Introduction: development and the anthropology of modernity -- The problematization of poverty: the tale of three worlds and development -- Economics and the space of development: tales of growth and capital -- The dispersion of power: tales of food and hunger -- Power and visibility: tales of peasants, women, and the environment -- Conclusion: imagining a postdevelopment era.
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Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Normal Collection International Peace Support Training Centre (IPSTC) HD75 .E73 1995 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 200129002020
Normal Collection Joint Command and Staff College General Stacks JZ 5588 .B47 2015 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available
Normal Collection Joint Command and Staff College General Stacks JZ5588 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 5440/21 Available jcsc001554

Originally published: 1995. Paperback reissue, with a new preface by the author.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [227]-274) and index.

Introduction: development and the anthropology of modernity -- The problematization of poverty: the tale of three worlds and development -- Economics and the space of development: tales of growth and capital -- The dispersion of power: tales of food and hunger -- Power and visibility: tales of peasants, women, and the environment -- Conclusion: imagining a postdevelopment era.

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