The Development Dictionary: A Guide to Knowledge as Power, Second Edition

About the Editor......Page 2
Preface to the New Edition......Page 7
Introduction......Page 16
The invention of underdevelopment......Page 22
A metaphor and its contorted history......Page 24
Colonizing anti-colonialism......Page 27
Conceptual inflation......Page 29
Expanding the reign of scarcity......Page 35
New commons......Page 38
The call......Page 40
Notes......Page 42
Further reading......Page 43
Setting the stage for the Brundtland Report......Page 45
A successful ambivalence......Page 49
Survival as a new raison d'état......Page 53
Towards a global ecocracy?......Page 55
Further reading......Page 57
Fairness and sameness......Page 59
From Alexander to Lincoln......Page 61
The politics of catching up......Page 66
The empty call for global equality......Page 68
Common wealth......Page 71
Notes......Page 73
Further reading......Page 74
Helping......Page 76
Medieval alms-giving......Page 78
Help overseas......Page 80
Making the poor fit for work......Page 81
Reaching for worldwide simultaneity......Page 83
Aid and the elegance of power......Page 85
The ambiguity of self-help and sharing......Page 88
Notes......Page 93
Further reading......Page 94
Market......Page 95
The rise of global neoliberalism
......Page 97
Market: a place and a principle......Page 100
The middle-class filter......Page 103
Market: a transformative power......Page 106
On being human......Page 108
Further reading......Page 114
Needs......Page 116
Neither necessities nor desires......Page 117
'Needs' in the development discourse......Page 120
Under the mask of compassion......Page 125
From needs to requirements......Page 127
Notes......Page 129
Further reading......Page 130
One World......Page 132
One mankind......Page 133
One market......Page 135
One planet......Page 137
Space against place......Page 140
Cosmopolitan localism......Page 143
Further reading......Page 146
Participation......Page 148
Human software......Page 149
Popular participation......Page 153
The pitfalls of empowerment......Page 155
Professionalizing grassroots activities......Page 156
Conscientizing from without?......Page 158
Participation: boon, myth, or danger?......Page 159
Beyond participation......Page 160
Notes......Page 163
Further reading......Page 164
Normalizing people in the nineteenth-century Europe......Page 166
Dismantling and reassembling societies......Page 169
Knowledge as power......Page 175
Knowledge in opposition......Page 178
Further reading......Page 180
Population......Page 182
How people became populations......Page 183
Birth control for development......Page 186
Population control for survival......Page 190
Notes......Page 192
Further reading......Page 193
Many perceptions, countless words......Page 195
Four dimensions of poverty......Page 197
The global construct......Page 199
The construct in action......Page 201
A world economy against vernacular villages......Page 206
Signals from the grassroots......Page 208
Notes......Page 211
Further reading......Page 214
A man and a concept......Page 216
Of character and the earth......Page 218
Of labour and the earth......Page 219
Of use value and exchange value......Page 220
Of theory and memory......Page 222
Of goods and movement......Page 223
Of gifts and service......Page 224
Of light and shadow......Page 226
Of women and the East......Page 228
Notes......Page 230
Further reading......Page 231
Two offspring: revolution and development......Page 233
A theodicy and an imperative of power......Page 236
Virtues into vices......Page 238
Eclipse of providence and wisdom......Page 239
Still a search for the beyond......Page 243
The bourgeois and his feedback......Page 244
Notes......Page 246
Further reading......Page 247
Gifts, inputs and substitutes......Page 249
Desacralization of nature......Page 252
Destruction of the commons......Page 254
Breaking nature's limits......Page 255
Undermining of sustenance......Page 257
Limits of nature – limits to development......Page 260
Further reading......Page 262
Science......Page 264
Science and development: a congenital relationship......Page 266
Bias against nature and handicraft......Page 268
Revamping society......Page 271
A totalitarian edge......Page 273
Further reading......Page 279
Socialism......Page 281
The popular revolts of 1989......Page 283
Dreams of liberation and the totalitarian legacy......Page 285
Enthronement of the Leviathan......Page 292
Subordination of diversity......Page 294
Further reading......Page 298
Standard of Living......Page 300
GNP per head: a post-war invention......Page 301
Well-being and well-having......Page 305
Blind spots......Page 308
Many faces of wealth......Page 311
Notes......Page 313
Further reading......Page 314
State......Page 316
Fusion of nation and state......Page 317
Hegemony of the European concept......Page 318
Development as raison d'état......Page 321
Towards a lighter state......Page 324
Notes......Page 326
Further reading......Page 327
Technology......Page 329
Delivering the goods?......Page 330
Secret path to paradise......Page 332
Wealth through transferring the costs......Page 333
Techniques of plunder......Page 336
Myopia makes for fascination......Page 338
Friendly imperialism......Page 340
Further reading......Page 342
Contributors......Page 344
Index......Page 346