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

Instruments and idioms of colonial and national development: India's historical experience in comparative perspective / Sugata Bose -- Modernizing bureaucrats, backward Africans, and the development concept / Frederick Cooper -- Visions of postwar health and development and their impact on publ...

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Weitere Verfasser: Cooper, Frederick (HerausgeberIn), Packard, Randall M. (HerausgeberIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: Berkeley, Calif. u.a. University of California Press 1997
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Zusammenfassung:Instruments and idioms of colonial and national development: India's historical experience in comparative perspective / Sugata Bose -- Modernizing bureaucrats, backward Africans, and the development concept / Frederick Cooper -- Visions of postwar health and development and their impact on public health interventions in the developing world / Randall Packard -- Intellectual openings and policy closures: disequilibria in contemporary development economics / Michael R. Carter -- Anthropology and its evil twin: "development" in the constitution of a discipline / James Ferguson -- Population science, private foundations, and development aid: the transformation of demographic knowledge in the United States, 1945-1965 / John Sharpless -- Redefining development at the World Bank / Martha Finnemore -- Development ideas in Latin America: paradigm shift and the economic commission for Latin America / Kathryn Sikkink -- "Found in most traditional societies": traditional medical practitioners between culture and development / Stacy Leigh Pigg -- Senegalese development: from mass mobilization to technocratic elitism / Mamadou Diouf -- Agrarian populism in the development of a modern nation (India) / Akhil Gupta
Beschreibung:Enth. 11 Beiträge
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:XII, 361 S.
24 cm
ISBN:0520209567
0-520-20956-7
0520209575
0-520-20957-5