Peter Sutoris

Visions of Development

Films Division of India and the Imagination of Progress, 1948-75

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Visions of Development analyses both the continuities in and departures from colonial ideologies for development in India in 1948-75. Utilizing the novel methodology of film analysis of government-sponsored documentary films from the period, it focuses on economic planning and industrialisation, large dams, family planning, integration of tribal peoples (Adivasis) into society, and civic education

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. August 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 139mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 486g
• ISBN-13: 9780190608323
• ISBN-10: 0190608323
• Artikelnr.: 47868790

Autorenporträt

Peter Sutoris, born in Slovakia, is a scholar of development, a documentary filmmaker and an educator. He is the director and producer of The Undiscovered Country, a film about education, development and environmental degradation in the Marshall Islands. He has lived and worked in South Asia, the Pacific, the Balkans and South Africa. A History graduate of Dartmouth College, he is currently a PhD candidate and Gates Scholar at the Education Faculty of Cambridge University. His current research focuses on cross-cultural scalability of development interventions, with a focus on environmental education programs.