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BL
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1032576
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b786946
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| Title & Author
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Power of development /\ [edited by] Jonathan Crush.
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| Publication Statement
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London ;New York :: Routledge,, 1995.
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1 online resource (xvi, 324 pages) :: illustrations, maps
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| ISBN
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0203975987
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: 0415111765
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: 0415111773
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: 661011448X
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: 9780203975985
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: 9780415111768
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: 9780415111775
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: 9786610114481
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0203975987
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0415111765
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0415111773
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Introduction : imagining development / Jonathan Crush -- The invention of development / Michael Cowen and Robert Shenton -- 'A new deal in emotions' : theory and practice and the crisis of development / Michael Watts -- Scenes from childhood : the homesickness of development discourses / Doug J. Porter -- Green development theory? : environmentalism and sustainable development / W.M. Adams -- Selective silence : a feminist encounter with environmental discourse in colonial Africa / Fiona Mackenzie -- Sustainable disasters? : perspectives and powers in the discourse of calamity / Kenneth Hewitt -- The object of development : America's Egypt / Timothy Mitchell -- Modernizing Malthus : the World Bank, population control and the African environment / Gavin Williams -- Changing discourses of development in South Africa / Chris Tapscott -- Eurocentrism and geography : reflections on Asian urbanization / T.G. McGee -- Imagining a post-development era / Arturo Escobar -- Black consciousness and the quest for a counter-modernist development / Kate Manzo -- Post-modernism, gender and development / Jane L. Parpart -- Becoming a development category / Nanda Shrestha.
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| Abstract
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Development histories reveal a legacy of contested power. These essays explore the language of development and its meaning within different political contexts, drawing material from Africa, Asia and Latin America by way of comparison.
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Economic development.
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Sustainable development.
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Women in economic development.
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BUSINESS ECONOMICS-- Development-- Business Development.
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BUSINESS ECONOMICS-- Development-- Economic Development.
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BUSINESS ECONOMICS-- Development-- General.
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BUSINESS ECONOMICS-- Government Business.
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BUSINESS ECONOMICS-- Structural Adjustment.
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Economic development.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Public Policy-- Economic Policy.
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Sustainable development.
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Women in economic development.
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| Dewey Classification
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338.9
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| LC Classification
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HD82.P633 1995eb
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| NLM classification
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83.39bcl
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| Added Entry
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Crush, J. S.
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