The Power of Development

BOOK COVER......Page 1
HALF-TITLE......Page 2
TITLE......Page 3
COPYRIGHT......Page 4
CONTENTS......Page 5
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS......Page 7
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS......Page 8
PREFACE......Page 11
ABBREVIATIONS......Page 15
INTRODUCTION......Page 18
HISTORIES OF DEVELOPMENT......Page 25
GEOGRAPHIES OF DEVELOPMENT......Page 30
OTHER DEVELOPMENTS......Page 34
Part I HISTORIES OF DEVELOPMENT......Page 40
INTRODUCTION......Page 42
THE EUROPEAN SETTING......Page 44
THE DESIGN OF DEVELOPMENT......Page 47
A THEORY OF TRUSTEESHIP......Page 48
UNDERDEVELOPMENT......Page 49
POSITIVISM IN BRITAIN......Page 52
CONCLUSION......Page 55
INTRODUCTION......Page 60
DEVELOPMENT AS KEYWORD......Page 63
DEVELOPMENT CONTESTED: MODERNITY, COUNTER-MODERNITY AND POST-COLONIALISM......Page 65
THE REINVENTION AND INSTITUTIONALIZATION OF POST-WAR DEVELOPMENT......Page 70
REVIVING CIVIL SOCIETY IN THE 1990s: RECYCLED POPULISMS AND THE CRISIS OF DEVELOPMENT......Page 73
CONCLUSION: FIN DE SIÈCLE DEVELOPMENT......Page 75
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT......Page 77
INTRODUCTION......Page 78
MASTER METAPHORS IN DEVELOPMENT......Page 80
‘PRIVILEGED PARTICLES’ IN PRACTICE......Page 86
AUTHORITY IN PRACTICE......Page 88
REASSERTING OUR COMMON FUTURE......Page 94
CONCLUSION......Page 97
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS......Page 100
INTRODUCTION......Page 102
TECHNOCENTRIST ENVIRONMENTALISM AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT......Page 103
SCIENCE AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT......Page 105
CONSERVATION AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT......Page 107
RADICAL/‘GREEN’ IDEOLOGIES IN SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT......Page 108
ENVIRONMENTALIST CHALLENGES TO SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT......Page 109
CONCLUSION......Page 112
INTRODUCTION......Page 114
THE LANGUAGE OF LEGITIMATION......Page 115
THE KENYA LAND COMMISSION 1932–34: LAND AND ENVIRONMENT......Page 119
GENDER, LAND AND ENVIRONMENT: MURANG’A DISTRICT......Page 122
Part II GEOGRAPHIES OF DEVELOPMENT......Page 126
INTRODUCTION: DISASTER AND DEVELOPMENT......Page 128
‘MASTER TEXTS’......Page 130
DISTANCING AND DICHOTOMIZING: THE VIEW FROM THE CENTRE......Page 131
SEGREGATING DISASTERS AND DEFINING TERRITORIES......Page 134
HIDDEN DAMAGES: THE VIEW FROM BELOW......Page 137
CONCLUSION: BAD GEOGRAPHIES......Page 139
INTRODUCTION......Page 142
TOO MANY PEOPLE?......Page 144
NOT ENOUGH FOOD?......Page 145
FODDER FOR PEACE......Page 146
NOT ENOUGH LAND?......Page 149
HIGH-PAYOFF INPUTS......Page 151
DECENTRALIZATION AND THE MARKET......Page 155
OBJECTS OF DEVELOPMENT......Page 158
MODEL ANSWERS......Page 159
OPPOSED TO SUBSIDIES?......Page 162
OPPOSED TO THE STATE?......Page 166
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS......Page 168
INTRODUCTION......Page 170
CONSTRUCTING AFRICAN DEMOGRAPHY......Page 172
HISTORY, GEOGRAPHY AND STATISTICS......Page 173
MANAGING THE ENVIRONMENT......Page 176
PROTECTING PROPERTY RIGHTS......Page 179
THE ELEMENTARY FORMS OF DEVELOPMENT DISCOURSE......Page 182
INTRODUCTION......Page 188
SEPARATE DEVELOPMENTS......Page 189
THE SEARCH FOR A ‘NEW DEVELOPMENT PARADIGM’......Page 193
‘DEVELOPMENT’ AS IDEOLOGICAL TRANSFORMATION......Page 197
DEVELOPMENT AS SCIENCE......Page 200
CONCLUSION......Page 202
INTRODUCTION......Page 204
EUROCENTRISM AND GEOGRAPHY......Page 205
EXPERIENCING ASIA: A PERSONAL REACTION......Page 211
ESCAPE FROM EUROCENTRISM—NEW THEORIES OF ASIAN URBANIZATION?......Page 214
CONCLUSION......Page 217
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT......Page 219
Part III OTHER DEVELOPMENTS......Page 220
INTRODUCTION......Page 222
THE HEGEMONY OF DEVELOPMENT......Page 224
SOCIAL MOVEMENTS AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE DEVELOPMENT ORDER......Page 227
ISSUES IN SOCIAL MOVEMENT RESEARCH: KNOWLEDGE, POLITICS AND NEEDS......Page 231
THE POLITICS OF NEEDS......Page 235
CONCLUSION......Page 236
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT......Page 238
INTRODUCTION......Page 240
MODERNITY AND DEVELOPMENT IN SOUTH AFRICA......Page 244
COUNTER-MODERNIST DISCOURSE IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF BLACK CONSCIOUSNESS......Page 250
BLACK CONSCIOUSNESS AND DEPENDENCY......Page 254
BLACK CONSCIOUSNESS AND LIBERATION THEOLOGY......Page 256
BLACK CONSCIOUSNESS AND PARTICIPATORY ACTION RESEARCH......Page 258
POST-APARTHEID DEVELOPMENT AND THE LEGACY OF BLACK CONSCIOUSNESS......Page 261
CONCLUSION......Page 263
INTRODUCTION......Page 264
DIFFERENCE AND THE THIRD WORLD ‘OTHER’......Page 265
POSTMODERNIST FEMINISM AND DEVELOPMENT......Page 267
POSTMODERN FEMINISM AND THE PRACTICE OF DEVELOPMENT......Page 272
CONCLUSION......Page 274
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS......Page 275
14 BECOMING A DEVELOPMENT CATEGORY......Page 276
BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 288
INDEX......Page 326