Escobar, Arturo

Encountering development : the making and unmaking of the Third World / Arturo Escobar. - Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c1995. - ix, 290 p. ; 24 cm. - Princeton studies in culture/power/history .

Includes bibliographical references and index.


"Evaluates development enterprise and development discourse from a critical theory perspective. This view of development policies and control mechanisms employs Colombian case studies of the Programa de Desarrollo Rural Integrado and of the local application of the discourse of women in development"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.



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Economic development.
Economic history--1945-
Developing countries--Economic conditions.
Developing countries--Social conditions.

HD75 / .E83 1995