The development dictionary : a guide to knowledge as power / edited by Wolfgang Sachs
- Bib ID:
- 4765218
- Format:
- Book
- Edition:
- 2nd ed.
- Description:
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- London : Zed Books, 2010
- xx, 332 p. ; 22 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 9781848133792
- 1848133790
- 9781848133808
- 1848133804
- Summary:
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In this classic collection, some of the world's most eminent critics of development review the key concepts of the development discourse. Each essay examines one concept from a historical and anthropological point of view and highlights its particular bias. Exposing their historical obsolescence and intellectual sterility, the authors call for a bidding farewell to the whole Eurocentric development idea. This is urgently needed, they argue, in order to liberate people's minds - in both North and South - for bold responses to the environmental and ethical challenges now confronting humanity. The combined result forms a must-read invitation to experts, grassroots movements and students of development to recognize the tainted glasses they put on whenever they participate in the development discourse.
- Full contents:
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- Introduction / Wolfgang Sachs
- Development / Gustavo Esteva
- Environment / Wolfgang Sachs
- Equality / C. Douglas Lummis
- Helping / Marianne Gronemeyer
- Market / Gérald Berthoud
- Needs / Ivan Illich
- One world / Wolfgang Sachs
- Participation / Majid Rahnema
- Planning / Arturo Escobar
- Population / Barbara Duden
- Poverty / Majid Rahnema
- Production / Jean Robert
- Progress / José María Sbert
- Resources / Vandana Shiva
- Science / Claude Alvares
- Socialism / Harry Cleaver
- Standard of living / Serge Latouche
- State / Ashis Nandy
- Technology / Otto Ullrich.
- Notes:
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- Previous ed.: 1992.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Subject:
- Other authors/contributors:
- Sachs, Wolfgang
- Copyright:
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- Publication date:
- 2010
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