The Postcolonial Politics of Development - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Postcolonial Politics of Development write by Ilan Kapoor. This book was released on 2008. The Postcolonial Politics of Development available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "This collection of essays is the first to chart what a specifically 'postcolonial politics' might look like in the context of global development so as to question development's dominant cultural representations and institutional practices." "The Postcolonial Politics of Development examines recent development policy initiatives in such areas as 'governance', 'human/gender rights', and 'participation' to better understand and contest how knowledge is produced in international development - its cultural assumptions and power implications. It shows how we, development practitioners and westernized elites/intellectuals, are complicit in this knowledge production. Such noble gestures as giving foreign aid or promoting participation and democracy often mask our institutional biases and economic and geopolitical interests, while silencing marginalized groups, on whose behalf we purportedly work."--BOOK JACKET.
The Postcolonial Politics of Development
The Postcolonial Politics of Development - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Postcolonial Politics of Development write by Ilan Kapoor. This book was released on 2008-02-08. The Postcolonial Politics of Development available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book uses a postcolonial lens to question development’s dominant cultural representations and institutional practices, investigating the possibilities for a transformatory postcolonial politics. Ilan Kapoor examines recent development policy initiatives in such areas as ‘governance,’ ‘human rights’ and ‘participation’ to better understand and contest the production of knowledge in development - its cultural assumptions, power implications, and hegemonic politics. The volume shows how development practitioners and westernized elites/intellectuals are often complicit in this neo-colonial knowledge production. Noble gestures such as giving foreign aid or promoting participation and democracy frequently mask their institutional biases and economic and geopolitical interests, while silencing the subaltern (marginalized groups), on whose behalf they purportedly work. In response, the book argues for a radical ethical and political self-reflexivity that is vigilant to our reproduction of neo-colonialisms and amenable to public contestation of development priorities. It also underlines subaltern political strategies that can (and do) lead to greater democratic dialogue.
Culture, Politics, and Development in Postcolonial Sri Lanka
Culture, Politics, and Development in Postcolonial Sri Lanka - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Culture, Politics, and Development in Postcolonial Sri Lanka write by Nalani Hennayake. This book was released on 2006. Culture, Politics, and Development in Postcolonial Sri Lanka available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this book, Nalani Hennayake unravels how the development experience of a postcolonial society is deeply embedded in a complex historical relationship between culture and politics by focusing on the country of Sri Lanka.
Legislative Development in Africa
Legislative Development in Africa - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Legislative Development in Africa write by Ken Ochieng' Opalo. This book was released on 2019-06-20. Legislative Development in Africa available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Examined the development of legislatures under colonial rule, post-colonial autocratic single party rule, and multi-party politics in Africa.
Colonialism and Postcolonial Development
Colonialism and Postcolonial Development - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Colonialism and Postcolonial Development write by James Mahoney. This book was released on 2010-02-15. Colonialism and Postcolonial Development available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this comparative-historical analysis of Spanish America, Mahoney offers a new theory of colonialism and postcolonial development. He explores why certain kinds of societies are subject to certain kinds of colonialism and why these forms of colonialism give rise to countries with differing levels of economic prosperity and social well-being. Mahoney contends that differences in the extent of colonialism are best explained by the potentially evolving fit between the institutions of the colonizing nation and those of the colonized society. Moreover, he shows how institutions forged under colonialism bring countries to relative levels of development that may prove remarkably enduring in the postcolonial period. The argument is sure to stir discussion and debate, both among experts on Spanish America who believe that development is not tightly bound by the colonial past, and among scholars of colonialism who suggest that the institutional identity of the colonizing nation is of little consequence.
