Acknowledgements |
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Preface to the second edition |
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1 A radical history of development studies: individuals, institutions and ideologies |
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Why a radical history of development studies? |
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Understanding development studies 13 What the book says |
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One Individuals and institutions |
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2 Great promise, hubris and recovery: a participant's history of development studies |
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Prologomenon: the era of the `positivist orthodoxy' |
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The promise of development studies |
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Reinvention in the 1990s and the challenge of Act V |
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Conclusion: critical engagement with globalization |
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3 From colonial administration to development studies: a post-colonial critique of the history of development studies |
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Understanding the colonial legacy of development studies |
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Obscuring a colonial genealogy |
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50 | (2) |
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Memory, narratives and history |
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52 | (3) |
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From colonial administration to development studies |
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Continuities and divergences |
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4 Critical reflections of a development nomad |
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68 | (5) |
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A radical agenda for future development studies: qualifications, caveats and context |
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Conclusion: a radical reconfiguration? |
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5 Secret diplomacy uncovered: research on the World Bank in the 1960s and 1980s |
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The purposes of aid: early illusions at the Overseas Development Institute |
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Research on the World Bank: an encounter with reality |
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Reality is not for publication: the World Bank's attempts to `bury' the ODI report |
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The World Bank is finally exposed |
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6 Development studies and the Marxists |
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Development studies I. The founding moment: big issues and big ideas |
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Development studies II. The age of neo-liberalism: how less becomes more, and more less |
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And the Marxists? I. Political struggle and intellectual dynamism |
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And the Marxists? II. Political defeats and beyond |
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7 Journeying in radical development studies: a reflection on thirty years of researching pro-poor development |
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The mid-1970s: Marxian modes of production analysis |
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The early 1980s: engaging with a potentially developmentalist state |
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Later 1980s: malign external hands and neo-liberal resource allocation priorities |
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The early 1990s: thinking development anew, ancient and postmodern |
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The mid-1990s: closely observing poverty |
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The late 1990s: back to basics |
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The present looking to the future |
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8 The rise and rise of gender and development |
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157 | (23) |
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Integrating gender into development analysis and planning |
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From equality to empowerment |
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163 | (3) |
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Mainstreaming gender in international development |
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What is the development agenda that needs gendering? |
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Is it better to travel hopefully than to arrive? |
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9 Development studies, nature and natural resources: changing narratives and discursive practices |
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Colonial administration and the management of nature |
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Modernist and populist narratives |
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The crisis of modernization and the rise of populist environmentalism: the 1970s and 1980s |
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`Incorporated environmentalism' and political ecology: the 1990s |
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192 | (3) |
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195 | (5) |
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10 Individuals, organizations and public action: trajectories of the `non-governmental' in development studies |
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Encountering the non-governmental |
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NGOs in development studies |
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203 | (4) |
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Re-remembering hidden histories? |
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207 | (2) |
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Problems of NGO research in development studies |
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209 | (5) |
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Looking back at the rise of non-governmentalism |
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About the contributors |
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Index |
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