Gow David D. Gow

Countering Development (eBook, PDF)

Indigenous Modernity and the Moral Imagination

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Produktbeschreibung

Cauca, located in southwestern Colombia and home to the largest indigenous population in the country, is renowned as a site of indigenous mobilization. In 1994, following a destructive earthquake, many families in Cauca were forced to leave their communities of origin and relocate to other areas within the province where the state provided them with land and housing. Noting that disasters offer communities the opportunity to remake themselves and their priorities, David D. Gow examines how three different communities established after the earthquake wrestled with conflicting visions of development. He shows how they each countered traditional notions of development by moving beyond a myopic obsession with poverty alleviation to demand that Colombia become more inclusive and treat all of its people as citizens with full rights and responsibilities.Through ethnographic fieldwork conducted annually in Cauca from 1995 through 2002, Gow compares the development plans of the three communities, looking at both the planning processes and the plans themselves. In so doing, he demonstrates that there is no single indigenous approach to development and modernity. He describes differences in how each community defined and employed the concept of culture, how they connected a concern with culture to economic and political reconstruction, and how they sought to assert their own priorities while engaging with the existing development resources at their disposal. Ultimately, Gow argues that the moral vision advanced by the indigenous movement, combined with the growing importance attached to human rights, offers a fruitful way to think about development: less as a process of integration into a rigidly defined modernity than as a critical modernity based on a radical politics of inclusive citizenship.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 315
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Mai 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822388807
• Artikelnr.: 54818774

Autorenporträt

David D. Gow is the Edgar R. Baker Professor of International Affairs and Anthropology and Director of the International Development Studies Program in The Elliott School of International Affairs at The George Washington University. Formerly a consultant to the World Bank and a senior associate with the World Resources Institute, he is a coeditor of Implementing Rural Development Projects: Lessons from AID and World Bank Experiences.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments ix
Abbreviations xiii
Introduction: Beyond the Developmental Gaze 1
1. More Than an Engaged Fieldnote: Collaboration, Dialogue, and Difference
21
2. Disaster and Diaspora: Discourses of Development and Opportunity 59
3. Development Planning: Slaves of Modernity or Agents of Change? 96
4. Local Knowledge, Different Dreams: Planning for the Next Generation 134
5. The Nasa of the North and the Tensions of Modernity 171
6. Beyond Development: The Continuing Struggle for Peace, Justice, and
Inclusion 202
Conclusion. Countering Development: Indigenous Modernity and the Moral
Imagination 240
Notes 261
Bibliography 273
Index 295