Introduction : imagining development / Jonathan Crush -- The invention of development / Michael Cowen and Robert Shenton -- 'A new deal in emotions' : theory and practice and the crisis of development / Michael Watts -- Scenes from childhood : the homesickness of development discourses / Doug J. Porter -- Green development theory? : environmentalism and sustainable development / W.M. Adams -- Selective silence : a feminist encounter with environmental discourse in colonial Africa / Fiona Mackenzie -- Sustainable disasters? : perspectives and powers in the discourse of calamity / Kenneth Hewitt -- The object of development : America's Egypt / Timothy Mitchell -- Modernizing Malthus : the World Bank, population control and the African environment / Gavin Williams -- Changing discourses of development in South Africa / Chris Tapscott -- Eurocentrism and geography : reflections on Asian urbanization / T.G. McGee -- Imagining a post-development era / Arturo Escobar -- Black consciousness and the quest for a counter-modernist development / Kate Manzo -- Post-modernism, gender and development / Jane L. Parpart -- Becoming a development category / Nanda Shrestha
Summary
Development histories reveal a legacy of contested power. These essays explore the language of development and its meaning within different political contexts, drawing material from Africa, Asia and Latin America by way of comparison
