On the Edges of Development Cultural Interventions [Hardcover]

Big business, financial institutions, and capitalist powers have wreaked much havoc on the Third World in the name of development. This book re-imagines development through a careful and imaginative exploration of some of the many ways that culture  in the broadest sense of lived experience and its representation  can recenter resistance, suggest alternative models, and advance critiques of development as it is currently practiced. The diverse group of scholars and activists who contribute chapters to the volume engage with the puzzle of how best to conceptualize an alternative development that improves the living conditions of women and men in different parts of the world and simultaneously demands solutions that focus on the integration of gender, diversity, and development with the realities of peoples lives.

Introduction: From the Edges of Development Kum-Kum Bhavnani, John Foran, Priya Kurian andDebashish Munshi  Part 1: Refusing Representations of Development  1. October 17, 1961 Moustafa Bayoumi  2. Ode to Quasheba : Resistance Rituals Among Higgler Women in Jamaica Hume N. Johnson  3. Plural Economies and the Conditions for Refusal: Gendered Developments in Bangkok Ara Wilson  4. Dancing on the Edge: Women, Culture, and a Passion for Change Kum-Kum Bhavnani andKrista Bywater  5. Resisting Westernity and Refusing Development Molefi Kete Asante  Part 2: Emergent Discourses of Development  6. From Roosevelt in Germany to Bush in Iraq: Developments Discourse of Liberation, Democracy, and Free Trade  Josefina Salda?a  7. Migrants, Genes, and Socio-Scientific Phobias: Charting the Fear of the Thlӥ