Regional Modernities: The Cultural Politics of Development in IndiaThis book advances public and scholarly debates on development and globalization in new directions. It presents carefully developed case studies to show how the subjects of development are shaped by, and actively reshape, development ideas, programs, and projects. The essays in this volume include cross-cultural perspectives from Africa, Southeast Asia, and the Indian diaspora. |
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Here , I have in mind not the clunky , economistic articulation of 1970s structural
Marxism and the modes of production debates . Rather , as Hall notes ,
articulation carries within it the twin concepts of joining and enunciation . An
articulation ...
Here , I have in mind not the clunky , economistic articulation of 1970s structural
Marxism and the modes of production debates . Rather , as Hall notes ,
articulation carries within it the twin concepts of joining and enunciation . An
articulation ...
Page 202
A growing number of critics argue that while ethnocentrism , imperialism , and
universalism continue to haunt the development project , the historical agency of
popular struggles has also appropriated from that project the articulation of
political ...
A growing number of critics argue that while ethnocentrism , imperialism , and
universalism continue to haunt the development project , the historical agency of
popular struggles has also appropriated from that project the articulation of
political ...
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Sarvodaya and Chipko constructed a notion of a regional political collectivity in
articulating a localist , communitarian critique of the ... in similar relation to forests
, to external markets and the state , and thus requiring a similar re - articulation .
Sarvodaya and Chipko constructed a notion of a regional political collectivity in
articulating a localist , communitarian critique of the ... in similar relation to forests
, to external markets and the state , and thus requiring a similar re - articulation .
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Contents
The Traffic in Ideas about | 75 |
Becoming Developed | 99 |
Indians | 122 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | Regional Modernities: The Cultural Politics of Development in India Regional Modernities: The Cultural Politics of Development in India, K. Sivaramakrishnan |
| Editors | K. Sivaramakrishnan, Arun Agrawal |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press, 2003 |
| ISBN | 0195657012, 9780195657012 |
| Length | 452 pages |
| Subjects | › › Business & Economics / Development / Economic Development |
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