This text examines the power of development to imagine new worlds
and to constantly reinvent itself as the solution to problems of
national and global disorder. The common thread of the enclosed
essays is the language and rhetoric of the development text. By
conceptualizing development as a discourse, the book argues that
development cannot simply be reduced to the outworking of deeper
economic logics and structures but has its own logic, internal
coherence and effects. The text discusses three main questions: how
and why does the language of development change over time?; what
role does geography play in the language and practices of
development?; and is it possible to imagine a world in which
development has no redeeming features or power? At the same time,
the book rejects the postmodern concept that the texts of
development must be situated within the power-laden political and
institutional context out of which they arise and to which they
speak.
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