Arturo Escobar is the Kenan Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. His most recent book is Territories of Difference.
How did the industrialized nations of North America and Europe come to be seen as the appropriate models for post-World War II societies in Asia, Africa, and Latin America? How did the postwar discourse on development actually create the so-called Third World? And what will happen when development ideology collapses? To answer these questions, Arturo Escobar shows how development policies became mechanisms of control that were just as pervasive and effective as their colonial counterparts. The development apparatus generated categories powerful enough to shape the thinking even of its occasional critics while poverty and hunger became widespread. 'Development' was not even partially 'deconstructed' until the 1980s, when new tools for analyzing the representation of social reality were applied to specific 'Third World' cases. Here Escobar deploys these new techniques in a provocative analysis of development discourse and practice in general, concluding with a discussion of alternative visions for a postdevelopment era. Escobar emphasizes the role of economists in development discourse - his case study of Colombia demonstrates that the economization of food resulted in ambitious plans, and more hunger. To depict the production of knowledge and power in other development fields, the author shows how peasants, women, and nature became objects of knowledge and targets of power under the 'gaze of experts'.
發表於2024-11-25
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Escobar's book is indeed influential in the development discipline. The greatest value of this piece is its reflective ontological inquiry. Instead of taking the conceptual family of development as given, Escobar argues that "development" is actually a disc...
評分Escobar's book is indeed influential in the development discipline. The greatest value of this piece is its reflective ontological inquiry. Instead of taking the conceptual family of development as given, Escobar argues that "development" is actually a disc...
評分Escobar's book is indeed influential in the development discipline. The greatest value of this piece is its reflective ontological inquiry. Instead of taking the conceptual family of development as given, Escobar argues that "development" is actually a disc...
評分Escobar's book is indeed influential in the development discipline. The greatest value of this piece is its reflective ontological inquiry. Instead of taking the conceptual family of development as given, Escobar argues that "development" is actually a disc...
評分Escobar's book is indeed influential in the development discipline. The greatest value of this piece is its reflective ontological inquiry. Instead of taking the conceptual family of development as given, Escobar argues that "development" is actually a disc...
圖書標籤: 人類學 development 發展人類學 Anthropology 社會學 Escobar 發展研究 research
從反貧睏、發展經濟學, 到IRD, WID, 可持續發展...用福柯式的話語分析幾乎把俺本科學過的那些奉為神話的經濟理全部論罵瞭一遍...真是打臉啊
評分Foucault... always Foucault....
評分看到前幾頁還覺得過癮,但往後看,發現作者何嘗不是在做另一種‘簡化’和‘去情景化’,既忽視瞭對所謂‘被發展對象’內部的多樣化考察,也缺乏對發展機構本身的分析,從話語分析上Ferguson要做得更好,從民族誌角度Moss和Yallow也是更齣色。
評分後現代的發展研究很早就意識到第三世界國傢的發展不可能僅僅是照搬西方模式一路嚮前,因而不顧當地文化和傳統地將這些社會都按照西方標準簡化成一個個需要被解決的“問題”的做法是行不通的。問題是,這樣的批判要指嚮怎樣的行動?這些專傢固然可以指齣在某些地方搞市場經濟隻是世界銀行的一廂情願,但那些地方就活該經濟落後著再扮齣個“原生態”的樣子來滿足西方獵奇者的好奇嗎?如果搞市場經濟算世行專傢的一廂情願,說那些地方不該搞市場經濟又何嘗不是某些專傢的一廂情願。即使提齣批判的人都是成天在西方發達國傢裏舒舒服服坐書齋的。那好,又說要結閤當地的曆史文化情境具體問題具體分析。所以我寜願讀那種把人都簡化成勞動力的政治經濟學,也不要讀這些所謂的後現代發展研究。因為它隻破不立,因為它從根本上來說是消解人們的行動力的。
評分The Problematization of Poverty: The Tale of Three Worlds and Development
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