Corrie Decker, Elisabeth McMahon

The Idea of Development in Africa

A History

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Produktbeschreibung

An engaging history of how the idea of development has shaped Africa's past and present encounters with the West.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Oktober 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 151mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 488g
• ISBN-13: 9781107503229
• ISBN-10: 1107503221
• Artikelnr.: 60020108

Autorenporträt

Corrie Decker is Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Davis. She is the author of Mobilizing Zanzibari Women: The Struggle for Respectability and Self-Reliance (2014) and numerous articles in the Journal of Women's History, the International Journal of African Historical Studies, Past and Present, Africa Today, and the American Historical Review. She is currently writing a book on the history of puberty in twentieth-century East Africa.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part I. Origins of the Development Episteme: 1. From Progress to Development
2. Knowledge and the Development Episteme
3. Eugenics and Racism in the Development Episteme
4. Decolonizing the Idea of Development
Part II. Implementation of the Development Episteme: 5. The Salvation of Science
6. Challenges to Development
7. From Modernization to Structural Adjustment
8. The New Missionaries
Part III. Development 'Problems': 9. Reshaping Huts and Homes
10. Lessons in Separate Development
11. Capitalizing on Dis-Ease
12. Manufacturing Modernization
13. African Critiques of the Development Episteme.