Fragments of Development: Nation, Gender, and the Space of Modernity
University of Michigan Press, 2005
eISBN: 978-0-472-02156-7 | Cloth: 978-0-472-11403-0 | Paper: 978-0-472-03141-2
Library of Congress Classification HD75.B494 2004
Dewey Decimal Classification 338.9001
eISBN: 978-0-472-02156-7 | Cloth: 978-0-472-11403-0 | Paper: 978-0-472-03141-2
Library of Congress Classification HD75.B494 2004
Dewey Decimal Classification 338.9001
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
By tracing out the intersection between the imagined space of the national economy and the gendered construction of "expert" knowledge in development thought, Suzanne Bergeron provides a provocative analysis of development discourse and practice. By elaborating a framework of including/excluding economic subjects and activities in development economics, she provides a rich account of the role that economists have played in framing the contested political and cultural space of development.
Bergeron's account of the construction of the national economy as an object of development policy follows its shifting meanings through modernization and growth models, dependency theory, structural adjustment, and contemporary debates about globalization and highlights how intersections of nation and economy are based on gendered and colonial scripts. The author's analysis of development debates effectively demonstrates that critics of development who ignore economists' nation stories may actually bolster the formation they are attempting to subvert. Fragments of Development is essential reading for those interested in development studies, feminist economics, international political economy, and globalization studies.
Bergeron's account of the construction of the national economy as an object of development policy follows its shifting meanings through modernization and growth models, dependency theory, structural adjustment, and contemporary debates about globalization and highlights how intersections of nation and economy are based on gendered and colonial scripts. The author's analysis of development debates effectively demonstrates that critics of development who ignore economists' nation stories may actually bolster the formation they are attempting to subvert. Fragments of Development is essential reading for those interested in development studies, feminist economics, international political economy, and globalization studies.
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