On the Edges of Development: Cultural Interventions

by Bhavnani; Kum-Kum

• ISBN13: 9780415956215
• ISBN10: 0415956218
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-02-11
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This volume re-imagines development through a careful and imaginative exploration of some of the many ways that culture a?? in the broadest sense of lived experience and its representation a?? can recenter resistance, suggest alternative models and advance critiques of development as it is currently practiced. The volume is organized around three central questions: How can development as it is currently propounded be a??refuseda?? and how can such a refusal suggest ways toward a more equitable and liveable development? How are emergent discourses around science, sexuality, and gendered economies challenging dominant approaches to development? How do fictions and other cultural productions help envision alternatives to development? This volume engages with the puzzle of how best to conceptualize an alternative development, one that improves the living conditions of poor people in the South and simultaneously demands a solution thatfocuses on the integration of gender, diversity and development with the realities of peoplea??s lives.

Table of Contents

List of Diagrams and Figures	p. xi
Acknowledgments	p. xiii
Introduction: From the Edges of Development	p. 1
Refusing Representations of Development
October 17, 1961	p. 13
Ode to "Quasheba": Resistance Rituals among Higgler Women in Jamaica	p. 22
Plural Economies and the Conditions for Refusal: Gendered Developments in Bangkok	p. 38
Dancing on the Edge: Women, Culture, and a Passion for Change	p. 52
Resisting Westernity and Refusing Development	p. 67
Emergent Discourses of Development
From Roosevelt in Germany to Bush in Iraq: Development's Discourse of Liberation, Democracy, and Free Trade	p. 77
Migrants, Genes, and Socioscientific Phobias: Charting the Fear of the "Third World" Tag in Discourses of Development in New Zealand	p. 94
Overseas Filipino Workers' Tales, or Globalization Discourses and Development	p. 110
Erratic Hopes and Inconsistent Expectations for Mexican Rural Women: A Critique of Economic Thinking on Alternatives to Poverty	p. 124
From Old to New Political Cultures of Opposition: Radical Social Change in an Era of Globalization	p. 143
Fictions of Development
Mama Benz and the Taste of Money: A Critical View of a "Homespun" Rags-to-Riches Story of Post-Independence Africa	p. 167
History, Development, and Transformation in Paule Marshall's The Chosen Place, The Timeless People: A Conversation among Students of Development	p. 188
Urduja through the Looking Glass: A Response to Colonial Trauma	p. 196
Fictions of (Under) Development: Hunger Artists in the Global Economy	p. 215
Afterword	p. 232
Contributors	p. 241
Bibliography	p. 245
Index	p. 269
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