1st Edition

On the Edges of Development Cultural Interventions

    290 Pages 9 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    290 Pages 9 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    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 people’s lives.

    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.