Ilan Kapoor

The Postcolonial Politics of Development

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Produktbeschreibung

Uses a postcolonial lens to question development's dominant cultural representations and institutional practices, investigating the possibilities for a transformatory postcolonial politics. This book examines development policy initiatives in such areas as 'governance,' 'human rights' and 'participation'.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Februar 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 472g
• ISBN-13: 9780415773973
• ISBN-10: 0415773970
• Artikelnr.: 25006598

Autorenporträt

Ilan Kapoor is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University, Toronto. His research focuses on postcolonial theory, participatory development, and democracy, and has been published in several academic journals, including Third World Quarterly and Alternatives. He has worked with many development organizations, including the Canadian International Development Agency.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Part 1: Postcolonial Insights? 1. Capitalism, Culture, Agency:
Dependency versus Postcolonial Theory 2. The Culture of Development Policy:
Basic Needs, Structural Adjustment, Good Governance and Human Rights Part
2: Postcolonial Complicity and Self-Reflexivity? 3. Hyper-Self-Reflexive
Development?: Spivak on Representing the Third World 'Other' 4.
Participatory Development, Complicity and Desire 5. Foreign Aid as G(r)ift
Part 3: Postcolonial Politics? 6. Deliberative Democracy or Agonistic
Pluralism?: The Relevance of the Habermas-Mouffe Debate for Third World
Politics 7. Acting in a Tight Spot: Homi Bhabha's Postcolonial Politics 8.
Bend it like Bhabha: Hybridity and Political Strategy. Conclusion