Encountering development : the making and unmaking of the Third World /

Escobar, Arturo, 1952-

Encountering development : the making and unmaking of the Third World / Making and unmaking of the third world Arturo Escobar. - Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2012. - xlvii, 290 p. ; 24 cm.

With a new preface by the author

Includes bibliographical references 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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Economic development.
Desarrollo económico
Economic history--1945-
Historia económica--1945-


Developing countries--Economic conditions.
Países en desarrollo--Condiciones económicas
Developing countries--Social conditions.
Países en desarrollo --Condiciones sociales

HD 75 / E74e 2012

338.9