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Encountering Development
The Making and Unmaking of the Third World
by Arturo Escobar
ISBN: 0691001022
ISBN-13: 9780691001029
Format: Paperback
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Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr
Published date: 1995
Size: 6.5 x 9.5 inches
Weight: 0.95 pounds
Pages: 290
Synopses
"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.
Publisher's Notes
"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.http://www.loc.gov/hlas/
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