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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In much extant writing globalization is an expression of the working of ' placeless
power ' - discourse formations , footloose capital , unaccountable international
institutions . Against this formulation the local is identified as the place that makes
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In much extant writing globalization is an expression of the working of ' placeless
power ' - discourse formations , footloose capital , unaccountable international
institutions . Against this formulation the local is identified as the place that makes
...
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Place , hybridity , symbolic shape , and institutional formation in ( post ) modern
Scotland . ' Political Geography 17 ( 7 ) 833 – 63 . Marshall , B . K . , 1967 .
Capitalism and Nationalism in Prewar Japan : The Ideology of the Business Elite
, 1868 ...
Place , hybridity , symbolic shape , and institutional formation in ( post ) modern
Scotland . ' Political Geography 17 ( 7 ) 833 – 63 . Marshall , B . K . , 1967 .
Capitalism and Nationalism in Prewar Japan : The Ideology of the Business Elite
, 1868 ...
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In the sense permitted in this volume , ' region ' could imply any space marked by
systematic patterns of behavior and relatively fixed institutional parameters or
where we can locate a cultural identity related to distinct norms of economic and
...
In the sense permitted in this volume , ' region ' could imply any space marked by
systematic patterns of behavior and relatively fixed institutional parameters or
where we can locate a cultural identity related to distinct norms of economic and
...
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Contents
The Traffic in Ideas about | 75 |
Becoming Developed | 99 |
Indians | 122 |
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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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