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How did the industrialized nations of North America and Europe come to be seen as the appropriate models for post-World War II societies in Asia, Africa, and Latin America? How did the postwar discourse on development actually create the so-called Third World? And what will happen when development ideology collapses? To answer these questions, Arturo Escobar shows how development policies became mechanisms of control that were just as pervasive and effective as their colonial counterparts. The development apparatus generated categories powerful enough to shape the thinking even of its occasional critics while poverty and hunger became widespread. "Development" was not even partially "deconstructed" until the 1980s, when new tools for analyzing the representation of social reality were applied to specific "Third World" cases. Here Escobar deploys these new techniques in a provocative analysis of development discourse and practice in general, concluding with a discussion of alternative visions for a postdevelopment era.
Escobar emphasizes the role of economists in development discourse--his case study of Colombia demonstrates that the economization of food resulted in ambitious plans, and more hunger. To depict the production of knowledge and power in other development fields, the author shows how peasants, women, and nature became objects of knowledge and targets of power under the "gaze of experts."
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How did the industrialized nations of North America and Europe come to be seen as the appropriate models for post-World War II societies in Asia, Africa, and Latin America? How did the postwar discourse on development actually create the so-called Third World? And what will happen when development ideology collapses? To answer these questions, Arturo Escobar shows how development policies became mechanisms of control that were just as pervasive and effective as their colonial counterparts. The development apparatus generated categories powerful enough to shape the thinking even of its occasional critics while poverty and hunger became widespread. "Development" was not even partially "deconstructed" until the 1980s, when new tools for analyzing the representation of social reality were applied to specific "Third World" cases. Here Escobar deploys these new techniques in a provocative analysis of development discourse and practice in general, concluding with a discussion of alternative visions for a postdevelopment era.Escobar emphasizes the role of economists in development discourse--his case study of Colombia demonstrates that the economization of food resulted in ambitious plans, and more hunger. To depict the production of knowledge and power in other development fields, the author shows how peasants, women, and nature became objects of knowledge and targets of power under the "gaze of experts."
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Anger does not equal analysis.......2004-06-09
This is a tract, not a thoughtful piece of scholarship. It is in the Latin American school of angry social science, but is little informed by fact. Much of what it says is correct, but is also well known. But the analysis is weak, based on incorrect or outdated data, and simply a regurgitation of stereotypes instead of a deductive grounded analysis based upon good ethnographic work. It is therefore often simply wrong. But anger sells books.....
Reunderstanding development.......2000-05-15
Arturo Escobar critics the whole concept of development in theory and practice from an extremely unusual and original perspective. He steps back and views development as something exotic and almost non-sense. Inspired on the work of Foucault, the author examines the evolution of the discourse about development as a form of how the West keeps exerting power and influence on the Third World. The ethnocentric views of development and interventions that come with them - propagated by Western governments, multinational companies, development institutions and academia - puts Third World cultures and traditional populations as something that should be significantly changed to achieve the so-dreamed "development." Although the results of these western-driven interventions over decades have usually been catastrophic for Third World's populations and cultures, Western "experts" keep coming to the Third World and elaborating new forms of discourses on development, now addressing objects like sustainable development, women and development and poverty erradication - all ethnocentric and based on western values. This book should be read by anyone who wants to reunderstand development in the Third World (and reflect if it is needed at all!).
Reunderstanding development.......2000-05-15
Arturo Escobar critics the whole concept of development in theory and practice from an extremely unusual and original perspective. He steps back and views development as something exotic and almost non-sense. Inspired on the work of Foucault, the author examines the evolution of the discourse about development as a form of how the West keeps exerting power and influence on the Third World. The ethnocentric views of development and interventions that come with them - propagated by Western governments, multinational companies, development institutions and academia - puts Third World cultures and traditional populations as something that should be significantly changed to achieve the so-dreamed "development." Although the results of these western-driven interventions over decades have usually been catastrophic for Third World's populations and cultures, Western "experts" keep coming to the Third World and elaborating new forms of discourses on development, now addressing objects like sustainable development, women and development and poverty erradication - all ethnocentric and based on western values. This book should be read by anyone who wants to reunderstand development in the Third World (and reflect if it is needed at all!).
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It is between the ages of nine and ten that children begin to experience themselves as "I" for the first time—as separate individuals, different from their parents and peers and essentially alone. This inner experience is sometimes precipitated by the child's first encounter with death and the first notion that earthly life is fragile and temporary.
In this insightful book, Koepke offers the reader a lucid, accessible description of the outer signs and symptoms of this significant turning point in every child's life.
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Participation, Negotiation and Poverty: Encountering the Power of Images : Designing Pro-Poor Development Programmes (King's Soas Studies in Development Geography)
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Beyond Cartesian Dualism: Encountering Affect in the Teaching and Learning of Science. (Science & Technology Education Library)
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There is surprisingly little known about affect in science education. Despite periodic forays into monitoring students’ attitudes-toward-science, the effect of affect is too often overlooked. Beyond Cartesian Dualism gathers together contemporary theorizing in this axiomatic area. In fourteen chapters, senior scholars of international standing use their knowledge of the literature and empirical data to model the relationship between cognition and affect in science education. Their revealing discussions are grounded in a broad range of educational contexts including school classrooms, universities, science centres, travelling exhibits and refugee camps, and explore an array of far reaching questions. What is known about science teachers’ and students’ emotions? How do emotions mediate and moderate instruction? How might science education promote psychological resilience? How might educators engage affect as a way of challenging existing inequalities and practices?
This book will be an invaluable resource for anybody interested in science education research and more generally in research on teaching, learning and affect. It offers educators and researchers a challenge, to recognize the mutually constitutive nature of cognition and affect.
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This digital document is an article from Journal of Teacher Education, published by Corwin Press, Inc. on March 1, 2004. The length of the article is 8389 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Iran Encountering Globalization: Problems and Prospects
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Examines the current state of Iran, looking at a wide range of areas including the economy, finance, politics, the media, the position of women and migration. The book discusses the uneasy balance between the theocratic conservatism, modernisation and globalization. Overall, the book suggests that forces for change in Iran are building up.
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This author-prepared Study Guide for FINANCIAL MARKETS AND INSTITUTIONS will save you time and help you succeed. You can test your knowledge of the material using the simulated test questions for key terms and concepts as well as the numerous matching, multiple-choice, and true/false questions for every chapter.
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The ideal primary documents reader for any history or political science course focusing on the presidency.
This fascinating--and very affordable--collection of 50 primary source documents offers a compact yet broad-based look at the development of the executive office. With judicious editing and contextual headnotes by Michael Nelson, students get a look at both the personalities and ideas that have shaped the institution, as well as insight into significant cases and events that play pivotal roles in American legal, political, and constitutional history. Based on extensive feedback from users, the second edition includes 9 new selections that feature both historical and recent pieces--from Lincoln's second inaugural address to the Bush Doctrine--dramatically showing students how presidents chart U.S. history.
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National Security Law Documents
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A unique volume of documents, this book is a companion volume to the casebook National Security Law. It brings together a wealth of documents ranging from President George Washington's Farewell Address and George Kennan's Long Telegram to important international conventions, domestic laws, executive orders, and departmental regulations on such matters as FBI counter-terrorism investigations and State Department treaty procedures. It is designed to serve as a standard desk reference for both scholars and practitioners interested in these issues.
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Michael Warner of the CIA History Staff in the Center for the Study of Intelligence has compiled a set of key declassified laws, executive orders, NSCIDs, DCIDs, & policy documents guiding the role & growth of the central intelligence function from 1945 to 2000. He also provides an historical perspective on the development of Central Intelligence following the passage of the National Security Act of 1947, when the CIA began its statutory existence. As the Cold War recedes into the past & a new world order emerges, especially after the attacks on 9/11/01, it is important to understand why intelligence was centralized in the form it was, & to explore differing views about its future.
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National Security Leaks: Is There a Legal Solution?
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New York Times V. United States: National Security and Censorship (Landmark Supreme Court Cases)
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The Negev: The Challenge of a Desert, 2nd ed
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The Negev, first published over a decade ago, told the story of some twenty years of study of southern Israel's desert. It synthesized the findings of botanists, geologists, soil scientists, agronomists, archaeologists, historians, and engineers and told how the applications of their work produced an agricultural surplus in this forbiddingly dry, hot region.
Now Michael Evenari has amplified the book with data from another decade of work. He describes the efforts at a new farm at Wadi Mashash, extends the weather data another ten years, presents further work on the adaptations of plants and animals to desert conditions, and takes a much deeper look at the historical precedents for the method of runoff agriculture, which has made the desert bloom.
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The water masters!.......2001-04-12
This is the best book on the desert ever written. The authors describe the ecology and more critically, the human history of the Negev. Their experimental work on runoff and floodwater farming should be seen by everyone interested in a sustainable future. The Nabatean farmers (~2000 years ago) farmed hundreds of thousands of hectares in an area with rainfall as low as 3" per year. They were the water masters! and there is much we can learn from them. Fabulous! Highly recommended.
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