David D Gow

Countering Development

Indigenous Modernity and the Moral Imagination

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"Amid abundant critiques of development, salutary and incisive as they may be, two countervailing patterns are disconcertingly persistent: dominant institutions continue to implement development programs according to their own top-down plans, and many subordinated peoples continue to 'desire' development even while harboring deep skepticism of top-down solutions. David D. Gow's study moves us beyond this impasse, showing how indigenous struggles have subverted dominant plans, not by rejecting development wholesale, but rather through pragmatic, militant struggle from within. His findings are sober yet profoundly hopeful for the transformative potential of grassroots indigenous politics and, equally important, for a rejuvenated anthropology that learns from these struggles by simultaneously taking part in them."--Charles R. Hale, Professor of Anthropology, University of Texas, Austin

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Mai 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 227mm x 155mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 431g
• ISBN-13: 9780822341710
• ISBN-10: 0822341719
• Artikelnr.: 23368544

Autorenporträt

David D. Gow

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