The Postcolonial Politics of Development

by Kapoor Ilan and Ilan Kapoor

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415773970
• ISBN13: 9780415773973
• Release Date: February 2008
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"