1st Edition
On the Edges of Development Cultural Interventions
Editors’ introduction
Kum-Kum Bhavnani, John Foran, Priya Kurian, and Debashish Munshi
PART ONE: REFUSING REPRESENTATIONS OF DEVELOPMENT
Chapter One
Moustafa Bayoumi
October 17, 1961
Chapter Two
Hume Johnson
(Defiant) Rituals of Resistance: Situating Inner-city Women in the Protest Performance of the Poor in Jamaica
Chapter Three
Tera Maxwell
The Many Faces of Urduja: Local and Global Resistance
Chapter Four
Ara Wilson
Capitalist Spaces, Queer Places
PART TWO: EMERGENT DISCOURSES OF DEVELOPMENT
Chapter Five
Josefina Saldaña
Development: Narratives of Liberation and Subjection in the Post-War Period
Chapter Six
Priya Kurian and Debashish Munshi
Migrants, Genes, and Socio-Scientific Phobias: Charting the Fear of the ‘Third World’ Tag in Discourses of Development
Chapter Seven
Ming-yan Lai
OFW Tales, or Globalization Discourses and Development
Chapter Eight
Magadalena Villarreal
Erratic Hopes and Inconsistent Expectations: Mexican Rural Women -- Subject-to-Development
PART THREE: FICTIONS OF DEVELOPMENT
Chapter Nine
Lena Khor
Mama Benz and the Taste of Money: A Critical View of a "Homespun" Rags to Riches Story
Chapter Ten
Erin Kennedy, Edwin Lopez, Moira O’Neil, and Molly Talcott
Fictions of Development: Reading The Chosen Place, The Timeless People in Santa Barbara, California
Chapter Eleven
Françoise Lionnet
Fictions of (Under)Development
Afterward
Susanne Schech
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Biography
Kum-Kum Bhavnani is Professor of Sociology and Director of the program in Women, Culture, and Development at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
John Foran is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Priya Kurian teaches environmental politics and media and politics at the University of Waikato, New Zealand.
Debashish Munshi teaches Management Communication at the University of Waikato, New Zealand.
